Microsoft Azure DevOps

Course Overview

Azure DevOps Services is Microsoft’s cloud-based, team focused services to help your entire organization plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services. Azure DevOps is designed to be a one-stop solution to help you deliver value and build quality in for any app, written using any code, on any platform. You can build and deploy both to the cloud and on-premises for desktop, web, mobile, and more. You’ll learn about the services and how you can use them effectively together. However, Microsoft has made the service to be fully extensible and integrates with popular services and platforms so you’re never locked in.

In this 3-day, hands-on course, you will learn how you can apply good DevOps principles so you and your team can deliver value as fast as your customers need and expect.

Key Learning Areas

Attendees will acquire first-hand experience using Azure DevOps Services and the features that it offers.

You will learn:

How you, your team, and company should provision an organization in Azure DevOps
How to on-board developers and stakeholders
How you can use Azure Boards track and manage your teams work
How use Azure Repos for distributed version control of your teams assets using Git
How to use Azure Pipelines to create build pipelines to package up your applications
How to use Azure Pipelines to publish your applications and other items to the cloud or on-premises
How to increase quality with Azure Test Plans
How to create, host, and share packages with your team, and add artifacts to your pipelines with Azure Artifacts

Each course module consists of a lecture followed by a hands-on lab designed to reinforce the principles presented during lecture.

Course Outline

A Day in the Life of a Developer

Level set of “what is DevOps”
Overview of Azure DevOps (aka VSTS)
- Azure Boards
- Azure Repos
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Test Plans
- Azure Artifacts
Examine end-to-end workflow
Examine Organization and Team configuration
- Logins
- Notifications
- The core features that every team member needs to know

Azure Boards: Plan, Track, and Discuss Work Across Your Teams

Deliver value to your users faster using proven agile tools to plan, track, and discuss work across your teams.

What does every team member need to know?
Organizing and refining the Product Backlog
Tools in Azure Boards
- The Product Backlog
- Kanban boards
- Task Boards
Dependencies, types, and related risks
Planning and executing a Sprint
- Limiting work in progress (WIP)
- Working in small batches
- Creating and accepting a definition of “Done”
Using queries, charts, and dashboards for basic reporting
“Just enough project management” to support full DevOps traceability

Azure Repos: Using Git Effectively

Get unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repos and collaborate to build better code with pull requests and advanced file management.

Centralized vs decentralized version control
Defining and managing repos
Don’t fear the command-line
Working with branches
Pull Requests
Using Code Search

Azure Pipelines: Building Quality In

Build and test with continuous integration that works with any language, platform, and cloud.

Defining Quality Gates
Azure Pipelines for Builds
Understanding and Managing Agents
YAML Build Definitions
Testing with Build
- Unit Testing
- Code Coverage
- Test Impact Analysis
Managing and Sharing Build Definition

Azure Pipelines: Releasing to the World

Use continuous deployment to get any app deployed to any platform and cloud.

Understanding deployment models
Azure Pipelines for Releases
YAML Release Definitions
Service Connections
Stages and environments
Defining approval processes and quality gates
Deployment Groups and Targets
Managing and Sharing Release Definitions

Azure Test Plans: Exploratory and Manual Testing

Test Plans and Test Suites
Managing Test Cases
Running Manual Tests
Running Exploratory Tests

Azure Artifacts: Sharing Code Effectively

Why and what of the service
Integrating with Azure Pipelines
Designing your repos to better support sharing
Updating your workflow to support collective ownership mindset
Branching strategies
Applying Open Source Software principles to internal development

Automated Testing

Building Integration Tests
Automated UI Testing with Selenium for Web Apps
Integrating Automated Tests with Builds and Releases

Feedback: User Acceptance Testing, Monitoring, and Analytics

Continuous Feedback
Involving Stakeholders
Running UAT Tests
Application Insights
Quality Tracking and Reporting
Azure DevOps Analytics

Who Benefits

This course is primarily designed for software developers who want to learn how to work with Azure DevOps Services to manage and build cloud-based applications. The hands-on labs involve mostly configuration with some light coding. Coding is done in C#. Non-developers including Scrum Masters,
Product owners, and more test focused engineers can attend and pair with developers as needed but will find most areas of the course valuable even if they don’t write code.

In order to work along with the labs, attendees must have the following:

A modern web browser like Microsoft Edge, Chrome, or Firefox. Internet Explorer is NOT supported.
An Azure subscription (Azure Pass, MSDN subscription, free trial, company subscription, etc.)
A Visual Studio 2019 compatible version of Windows
Any “edition” of Visual Studio 2019 (Community, Professional, or Enterprise) with the latest
updates installed and the ASP.NET and Web Development, and Azure Development workloads installed
Local Administrative permissions to install additional tools such as the Git command-line tools, NuGet packages, and other tools that are required during the course of the labs

Prerequisites

Basic programming experience, preferably in C# with Visual Studio.

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