Overview

This course focuses on designing an effective Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy aligned with project goals to enable seamless software delivery. You will learn to integrate build and deployment processes into a cohesive Dev-Test-Prod pipeline for consistency and efficiency throughout the software lifecycle.

The course emphasizes the effective use of Azure DevOps Pipelines to implement CI/CD processes. Attention will be given to designing maintainable, reusable, and extendable pipeline code. This includes modularizing tasks, jobs and stages following coding best practices, and leveraging templates to reduce redundancy.

This is a hands-on training where real project experience is transferred to participants through troubleshooting and building during the sessions.

By the end of the course, you will have the skills to design and implement a sustainable Continuous Deployment strategy that supports efficient delivery as your project scales.

Motivation

Building Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) without a clear vision and strategy often leads to cumbersome, inflexible, and hard-to-change code. In such cases, the tool ends up dictating the process, which can hinder efficiency and adaptability.

Applying the same mindset of code quality to pipelines as you would for application code is crucial. Without this, pipeline code becomes resistant to change, difficult to maintain, and lacks reusability and extensibility, resulting in low flexibility and high costs of change. A strategic approach to designing CI/CD ensures your deployment processes are sustainable, adaptable, and efficient.

Learning Objectives

• Develop a Strategic Vision for CI/CD
• Build and Integrate CI/CD Pipelines Using Azure DevOps
• Pipeline Code Quality: Maintainable, Readable, Extenssible, Reusable
• Troubleshoot and Optimize Deployment Pipelines

Target Audience

• Internship programs for DevOps engineers and Software Developers
• Software Developers and DevOps engineers

Standard Format Outline

➟ onsite: two full days
➟ online: four days with 4-hour sessions each

Custom formats are also available, offering extended durations to address specific participant needs, provide additional guided practice, or begin building Docker files and the Kubernetes cluster for a project brought in by the participants.

A commonly recommended customization is to combine it with the 'Docker and Kubernetes' course into an integrated training program which would target Continous Deployment to a Kubernetes Cluster.

Outline:

Azure DevOps Services Features:

• Boards and Code Traceability
• Git Repos - branching models
• Pull Requests
• Azure Pipelines
• Azure Artifacts
• Azure CLI

Continous Deployment

• CD Strategies
• CD with Azure DevOps Pipelines
  Triggers
  Stages, Jobs, Tasks
  Code Reuse with Templatess
  Variables, Expressions, Conditions, Parameters, Artifacts
• Environment Configurations
• Secrets Management with Azure Pipelines

Continous Integrations

• CI Strategies
• CI with Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Pull-Requests Policies

Advanced CD and CI

• Versions Management
• Environment Pipelines
• Customer Specific Pipelines