Continuous Delivery with Azure DevOps

Course details

Azure DevOps can help you achieve faster time to market, aligning people, processes, and technology for optimum flow. In this course, instructor Paul Hacker, a practicing Azure DevOps architect, shows you how you set up a continuous deployment pipeline in Azure DevOps. Learn why the DevOps approach to software is so useful for modern organizations, and get a complete overview of the different stages and tasks of the Azure-based release pipeline. Discover how to set up your Azure environment, install and configure release agents, and run automated CI builds, and set up the pipeline. Finally, Paul shows the CI/CD solution in action, as he walks you through the complete deployment experience.

Learning objectives
What is DevOps?
Release pipelines
Azure environments
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates
Deploying to Azure App Services
Installing and configuring agents
Running CI builds
Creating a CD release pipeline
CI/CD in action in Azure

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Azure DevOps for software teams
02 - What you should know

1. What Is DevOps

03 - What is DevOps
04 - Why is DevOps useful

2. Azure DevOps Release Pipelines

05 - Release pipelines
06 - Stages
07 - Tasks
08 - Releases

3. Microsoft Azure Environment

09 - Overcome deployment obstacles with Azure
10 - Automatic creation of environments
11 - Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates
12 - Deployment to Azure App Services

4. Installing Build and Release Agents

13 - Introduction to agents
14 - Download the agents
15 - Install the agents
16 - Prepare for agents configuration
17 - Configure the agents

5. Continuous Integration (CI)

18 - Continuous integration (CI) overview
19 - Review the CI build setup
20 - Run the CI build
21 - Review the build output
22 - Build alternatives to .NET projects

6. Continuous Delivery (CD)

23 - Release pipelines basics
24 - Start a release pipeline
25 - Create a release pipeline - Agent jobs, part 1
26 - Create a release pipeline - Agent jobs, part 2
27 - Use variables in pipelines
28 - Finalize variables in pipelines
29 - Standardize pipelines with task groups
30 - Deployment groups for tracking pipelines
31 - Create a deployment group

7. CI CD in Action in Azure

32 - Deploy into Azure
33 - Finalize Azure deployment
34 - Azure deployment - Edit pipeline
35 - Begin Azure DevOps end-to-end experience
36 - Azure DevOps end-to-end experience

Conclusion

37 - Next steps