Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Overview

This course provides knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps practices of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Microsoft Azure.

The course will provide knowledge of continuous integration builds, automated testing and continuous delivery and deployment build, test, and release to the next level by understanding how they function within a DevOps development environment.

The course will also cover how VSTS integrates with third party and OSS tools, such as Git and Jenkins,

The course is intended for IT Professionals who are interested in crossing over into development territory towards the goal of establishing a DevOps culture, and Developers who want to learn more about the development processes of DevOps in order to extend upon Agile processes for rapid delivery.

Students curious about DevOps practices as a culture shift, but do not have extensive experience with VSTS or Microsoft Azure, should be able to follow the procedural and expository explanations of continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Syllabus

Module 0: Welcome to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
- Course Overview
- Before Starting This Course
- Pre-Course Survey
Module 1 | Continuous Integration
- Continuous Integration
- Pipelines and Agents
- Technical Debt
- Module 1 Review Questions (Ungraded)
Module 2 | Package Management
- Package Management
- Module 2 Review Questions (Ungraded) current section
Module 3 | Continuous Delivery
- Release Pipelines
- Environments and Tasks
- Test Automation
- Advanced Delivery
- Module 3 Review Questions (Ungraded)
Module 4 | Continuous Deployment
- Continuous Deployment
- Advanced Continuous Deployment
- Module 4 Review Questions (Ungraded)
Module 5 | Practice Labs
- Practice Labs
Final Exam (Graded)
- Final Exam(Graded)
- Post-Course Survey