DevOps: CI to CD with VSTS course now live!

May 22, 2017 |

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Delighted to announce that my free training course on DevOps: Continuous Integration to Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Team Services & Azure has just released on the Microsoft Open edX platform. The training has hours of video content, theory, labs and certification. It is primarily targeted at development teams but is useful for anyone wanting to learn about DevOps and it’s application in Modern Engineering environment with VSTS & Azure. The course has been jointly developed by Avanade & Microsoft… You can check out the course here - DevOpsCiCdCourse

Introduction

Here is a two minute primer to the course…

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Key Topics…

Apart from covering the essential topics such as Why DevOps and What are it’s benefits? Some of the key topics covered in the training are…

Continuous Integration

Building blocks of CI
Difference between centralized & distributed source control systems
Git as a source control system
Git 101: Push, Pull, Commit, Fetch, Merge, History; integration with VS & VS Code;
Git from command line
Automation with Git: Git Hooks, Git Pull Requests
What is CI & its building blocks
Creating your first CI pipeline with VSTS

Continuous Delivery

Principles & practices of continuous delivery, key strategies
Technical debt – what, why & how to tame; setting up & using SonarQube & ndepend
Package Management – Dependency Management, SemVer, GitVersion,
NuGet pipelines, Chocolatey
Packaging: Artifacts, Web Deploy, Sql Package (dacpac)
Config Transformation & Configuration Management
Automation- Automated Unit Testing, Functional Automation, Availability and Perf Testing
Infrastructure Automation: Automated provisioning of web farms, sql paas
Provision Virtual machines using ARM templates
Release Management in a continuous delivery mode of delivery