Implementing Continuous Delivery

Content

Module 1: Design a Release StrategyLessons

• 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 WorkflowLessons

• 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 PipelinesLab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vaultLab : Setting up and Running Load TestsLab : Setting up and Running Functional TestsLab : Using Azure Monitor as release gateLab : 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 patternLessons

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

Lab : Blue-Green DeploymentsLab : 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