This course provides the knowledge and skills to implement continuous delivery. Students will learn how to design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, and implement an appropriate deployment pattern.
Audience profile
Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Define the components of a release pipeline
Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
Choose a release management tool
Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
Embed testing in the pipeline
List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports
Create a release gate
Describe deployment patterns
Implement Blue Green Deployment
Implement Canary Release
Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
Prerequisites
Fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles.
It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
Course details
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Module
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to
Module 1: Design a Release Strategy
Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Release strategy recommendations
Building a High Quality Release pipeline
Choosing a deployment pattern
Choosing the right release management tool
Lab: Building a release strategy
Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Define the components of a release pipeline
Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
Choose a release management tool
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Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow
Create a Release Pipeline
Provision and Configure Environments
Manage And Modularize Tasks and Templates
Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
Automate Inspection of Health
Lab: Automating your infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
Lab: Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
Lab: Setting up and Running Load Tests
Lab: Setting up and Running Functional Tests
Lab: Using Azure Monitor as release gate
Lab: Creating a Release Dashboard
Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
Embed testing in the pipeline
List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports Create a release gate
Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern