Azure DevOps for Beginners (2021)

Course details

Azure DevOps is a bundle of services to help developers ship high-quality products faster. In this course, instructor Walt Ritscher teaches you everything you need to get up and running using this DevOps solution. Walt gives you an overview of the Azure DevOps services, then explains how to create projects and add users to organizations or teams. He presents a quick tour of Azure Boards, the hub for managing software projects, then describes how to use work items, backlogs, sprints, Kanban boards, and more. Walt shows you how Azure Repos provides a place to capture every team member’s source code on the Microsoft cloud servers. He walks you through the parts of Azure Repos and how to manage what each part does. Walt explains the parts and features of Azure Pipelines, the set of services that automate your application build and deployment phases. He concludes with different extensions you can add to DevOps, including Slack, Marketplace, and Persona.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Use Azure DevOps to enhance application development
02 - Getting the most from this course

1. Setup and Overview

03 - Overview of Azure DevOps
04 - Where to access Azure DevOps
05 - Understand the DevOps payment plan
06 - Login to Azure DevOps web portal
07 - Create an Azure DevOps project
08 - Create a project with the Microsoft demo generator
09 - View the generated project
10 - Add users to an organization
11 - Add users to an Azure DevOps team

2. Azure Boards

12 - Manage your team workflow with Azure Boards
13 - Tour of Azure Boards
14 - Create a work item
15 - Boards and backlogs
16 - Set sprint cadence
17 - Boards and sprints
18 - Kanban board basics
19 - Add columns and swim-lanes to Kanban board
20 - Set work in progress (WIP) limits
21 - Kanban board tag settings
22 - Kanban board custom styles
23 - View work progress with dashboards
24 - Create custom work item queries
25 - Add a custom query to the dashboard

3. Azure Repos

26 - What are Azure Repos
27 - View the parts of Azure Repos
28 - Create an Azure Repo in the portal
29 - Clone the repo to a developer computer
30 - Create a repo branch
31 - Edit and commit to repo
32 - Push the branch to DevOps
33 - Create a pull request
34 - Team review of pull request

4. Azure Pipelines

35 - What are Azure Pipelines
36 - Explore the Pipeline parts
37 - Explore Pipeline build features
38 - Explore the example web project
39 - Add a service connection to Azure Resource Manager
40 - Explore the pipeline templates
41 - Add a build pipeline
42 - Manually run and troubleshoot a pipeline
43 - Update the repo to trigger the build
44 - Add a release pipeline
45 - Use custom variables in the pipeline

5. Extending DevOps

46 - Extensibility and integration overview
47 - Add Azure DevOps apps to Slack
48 - Configure Slack channel to work with DevOps
49 - Examine configuration messages
50 - Watch integration message flow into Slack
51 - What extensions can contribute
52 - Use the Marketplace to install free extensions
53 - Use the Code Search extension
54 - Use the Persona extension

Conclusion

55 - Next steps

Azure DevOps for Beginners (2021)

Authors

Walt Ritscher