CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines

Course Overview

DevOps provides a set of cloud-hosted tools that software teams can use as an end-to-end solution to plan, develop, test, and deliver value in the form of working software. Azure Pipelines automatically builds, tests, and deploys code projects in the cloud or on-prem to enable continuous feedback.

This one-day course demonstrates how an agile team can configure and use Azure Pipelines to effectively build, test, and deploy software while practicing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common Azure DevOps project, on a common case study.

Key Learning Areas

Course Outline

Continuous Integration

Introduction to Azure Pipelines
Creating a build pipeline
Pipeline tasks, variables, and triggers
Agents (hosted vs. on-premises)
Configuring self-hosted agents
Creating a YAML-based pipeline
Running tests and computing code coverage
Using Coverlet to collect/report code coverage
Configuring CI using triggers
Practicing Continuous Integration
Configuring and using Test Impact Analysis
Exploring pipeline analytics
Continuous Integration+
Hands-on lab

Continuous Delivery

Creating a release pipeline
Pipeline stages, jobs, tasks, and targets
Multi-stage YAML pipelines
Configuring environments and resources
Creating, deploying, and managing a release
Configuring/practicing Continuous Delivery
Hands-on lab

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment
Build-measure-learn explained
Using feature flags for CD and feedback
Hypothesis-Driven Development
Using LaunchDarkly for feature management
Creating and using feature flags
Experimenting in production, A/B testing
Hands-on lab

Who Benefits

This course is appropriate for all members of a software development team, especially those who are actively involved in automating the building, testing, and deploying of software. This course will also provide value for individuals outside the development team (managers, IT, operations, and other stakeholders) who want hands-on exposure to the capabilities of Azure Pipelines.

Ideally, attendees should have some experience with Azure DevOps. Understanding of C# and .NET 6.0 will be beneficial but is not required.

Prerequisites

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