Overview:

This course provides the knowledge and skills to implement continuous delivery. Students will learn how to design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, and implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Duration:

08 hours

Objectives:

• 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

Intended Audience:

Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Prerequisites:

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.

Course outlines:

Module 1: Design a Release Strategy

Lessons

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release strategy recommendations
• Building a High Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing a deployment pattern
• Choosing the right release management tool

Lab: Building a release strategy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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 

Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow

Lessons

• Create a Release Pipeline
• Provision and Configure Environments
• Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
• Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
• Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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

Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Lessons

• Introduction to Deployment Patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Feature Toggles
• Canary Releases
• Dark Launching
• AB Testing
• Progressive Exposure Deployment

Lab: Blue-Green Deployments

Lab: Traffic Manager

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment