Over the last 3 months I was busy working on my course on Continuous
Delivery with Visual Studio Team Services.
The course is published by Packt - a leading UK provider of Technology
eBooks, Videos and Blogs, and their editors and marketing department has done a
fantastic job of helping me with with creative graphics and animations to bring
life to this course.
This course is intended for software development professionals who want to
learn about Continuous Delivery in a technical value stream as supported by
Visual Studio Team Services in order to continually deliver working software at
scale. You'll learn how to create, build, test and release a containerized
ASP.NET web api to kubernetes cluster on Azure.
The course consists out of seven sections:
- Introduction to continuous delivery - We'll learn about Continuous
Delivery, the business goals and principles of Continuous Delivery
- Introduction to visual studio team services - We'll learn about the
different elements of Visual Studio Team Services and how they function
and how using these connected tools you can move your organization to a
full-fledged continuous delivery implementation.
- Setting up the development environment for .net core applications
using Docker:
- Source code management in VSTS : We'll have a look into the Git
version control in VSTS and discuss branching strategies like trunk based
development and how these concepts relate to continuous delivery.
- Build management in VSTS : We'll see how to setup a Continuous
integration build in VSTS that helps the code stay robust enough that team
members can fearlessly make changes to the code base without worrying
about breaking existing functionality.
- Continuous testing : This section we’ll learn how to ensure that an
application's components function correctly when assembled together. We'll
see how to automate the tests and include them in your Continuous
Integration scheme to get the most value from the tests.
- Release management in VSTS : This section shows you how to do
automatic deployments by using Release Management. You'll learn Release
Management in VSTS, how it works and how to use release management to
deploy our sample application to a Kubernetes cluster on Azure.
The course follows a phased approach to continuous delivery to automate
build, deploy and management of .net core applications to Azure Container
Services using VSTS ALM. By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary
knowledge to create a fully automated build and release pipeline using Visual
Studio Team Services for your .NET applications. And don't forget to check the
course at https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/continuous-delivery-visual-studio-team-services-video
