Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

About this course

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program in DevOps.

This course provides knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps practices of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Microsoft Azure.

The course will provide knowledge of continuous integration builds, automated testing and continuous delivery and deployment build, test, and release to the next level by understanding how they function within a DevOps development environment.

The course will also cover how VSTS integrates with third party and OSS tools, such as Git and Jenkins,

The course is intended for IT Professionals who are interested in crossing over into development territory towards the goal of establishing a DevOps culture, and Developers who want to learn more about the development processes of DevOps in order to extend upon Agile processes for rapid delivery.

Students curious about DevOps practices as a culture shift, but do not have extensive experience with VSTS or Microsoft Azure, should be able to follow the procedural and expository explanations of continuous integration and continuous delivery.

What you'll learn

Configure Git and TFVC version control options for Continuous Integration

How to manage Technical Debt and the sources and impact of it.

How to create a continuous integration build using VSTS

Package Management Integration options such as NuGet, SemVer, GitVersion and others.

Agents and Pipelines, including how to release pipelines

Continuous Delivery and Release Management strategies

Integrating automated testing into your release pipelines using Selenium, Coded UI Testing, Microsoft Test Manager

Understand the various availability and performance testing options

Automated provisioning and de-provisioning of infrastructure and databases D

Deployment groups, feature flags and recovery automation

Database deployment in release pipelines

Continuous deployment with Jenkins and VSTS

Course Syllabus

Module 0: Welcome to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Course Overview
Before Starting This Course
Pre-Course Survey

Module 1 | Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Pipelines and Agents
Technical Debt
Module 1 Review Questions (Ungraded)

Module 2 | Package Management

Package Management
Module 2 Review Questions (Ungraded) current section

Module 3 | Continuous Delivery

Release Pipelines
Environments and Tasks
Test Automation
Advanced Delivery
Module 3 Review Questions (Ungraded)

Module 4 | Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment
Advanced Continuous Deployment
Module 4 Review Questions (Ungraded)

Module 5 | Practice Labs

Practice Labs

Final Exam (Graded)

Final Exam(Graded)
Post-Course Survey

Meet the instructors

Tarun Arora

Microsoft MVP, author, and trainer Microsoft

Tarun Arora is a Microsoft MVP, author, and trainer on DevOps. He is obsessed with high-quality, working software, continuous delivery, and Agile practices. Tarun heads DevOps for Avanade, UK, a Microsoft Gold Partner. You can find more DevOps-focused content on his blog www.visualstudiogeeks.com. For latest and greatest in DevOps, follow Tarun on Twitter @arora_tarun.