Description

About this course

What you’ll learn

• Differentiate between a release and a deployment
• Define the components of a release pipeline
• Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
• Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
• Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
• Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
• Choose a release management tool
• Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
• Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
• Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
• Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
• Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
• Embed testing in the pipeline
• List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports
• Create a release gate
• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

Prerequisites

• Students should have fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
• It is recommended that you have experience working in an IDE, as well as some knowledge of the Azure portal. However, students who may not have a technical background in these technologies, but who are curious about DevOps practices as a culture shift, should be able to follow the procedural and expository explanations of continuous integration regardless.

Estimate Time : 8-12 hours

Module 1 – Design a Release Strategy

In this module, you’ll be introduced to

• Lesson: Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Lesson: Release Strategy Recommendations
• Lesson: Building a High Quality Release Pipeline
• Lesson: Choosing a Deployment Pattern
• Lesson: Choosing the Right Release Management Tool
• Lab: Building a Release Strategy

Module 2 – Set Up a Release Management Workflow

In this module, you’ll be introduced to

• Lesson: Create a Release Pipeline
• Lesson: Provision and Configure Environments
• Lesson: Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
• Lesson: Integrate Secrets with the Release Pipeline
• Lesson: Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
• Lesson: Automate Inspection of Health
• Lab: Automating your infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
• Lab: Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
• Lab: Setting up and Running Load Tests
• Lab: Setting up and Running Functional Tests
• Lab: Using Azure Monitor as release gate
• Lab: Creating a Release Dashboard

Module 3 – Implement an Appropriate Deployment Pattern

In this module, you’ll be introduced to

• Lesson: Introduction to Deployment Patterns
• Lesson: Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Lesson: Feature Toggles
• Lesson: Canary Releases
• Lesson: Dark Launching
• Lesson: AB Testing
• Lesson: Progressive Exposure Deployment
• Lab: Blue-Green Deployments
• Lab: Traffic Manager

Additional information

Certificate

When you enrolled into this course you will automatically get a Certificate of Participation for completing the course. An example is provided below.