Define and implement continuous integration

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Create a build pipeline in Azure Pipelines
• Map manual build steps to automated build tasks
• Publish your builds so others can access them
• Use templates to build multiple configurations (optional)

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Explain the benefits of automated testing and the kinds of testing you can use.
• Run unit tests locally and then in Azure Pipelines.
• Add dashboard widgets to visualize test runs over time.
• Perform code coverage testing to see how much of your code is covered by unit tests.
• Fix and verify test failures in your build pipeline.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Create and share packages that multiple applications can use.
• Create a build pipeline for your package and publish your package to Azure Artifacts.
• Connect an application to your package and build the application in Azure Pipelines.
• Push changes to your package and update your application to use them.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Choose when to use Microsoft-hosted build agents and when to host your own
• Describe the options you have when you're managing your own build agents
• Bring up and configure your own agent to work with Azure Pipelines
• Connect your agent to a pipeline and build your application

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Define what continuous delivery is, why it's important, and what tools you can use.
• Create a basic release pipeline in Azure Pipelines that deploys a web application to Azure App Service.
• Examine pipeline analytics to understand the health and history of your releases.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Identify the stages, or major divisions of the pipeline, that you need to implement a multistage pipeline
• Explain when to use conditions, triggers, and approvals to promote changes from one stage to the next
• Promote a build through these stages: Dev, Test, and Staging

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Define the role of functional tests and identify some popular kinds of tests you can run.
• Map manual testing steps to automated test cases.
• Run automated UI tests locally and in the pipeline by using Selenium.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Define the role of nonfunctional tests and explain how they compare to functional tests
• Identify some popular kinds of nonfunctional tests you can run
• Run automated load tests in the pipeline by using Apache JMeter
• Convert test results to a format that Azure Pipelines can visualize for you

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Explain why deployment patterns matter
• Compare different deployment patterns so that you can choose the one that best suits your needs
• Apply the blue-green deployment pattern in your pipeline

In this module, you will:

• Identify the capabilities of Azure Automation State Configuration.
• Learn how to onboard VMs for management by Azure Automation.
• Automatically update VMs to maintain a desired state configuration (DSC).

In this module, you will:

• Learn essential features and techniques to build robust and dynamic workflows
• Build and test a Node.js project by using GitHub Actions and a templated workflow
• Debug a failed test using the GitHub Actions Log
• Customize your workflow with GitHub Actions

• Introduction
• What is Azure Pipelines?
• Exercise - Get the sample application
• Plan your build tasks
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Exercise - Create the pipeline
• Exercise - Publish the result to the pipeline
• Exercise - Build multiple configurations by using templates
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is automated testing?
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Exercise - Add unit tests to your application
• Exercise - Add a testing widget to your dashboard
• Exercise - Perform code coverage testing
• Exercise - Fix a failed test
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• Plan build dependencies for your pipeline
• What is Azure Artifacts?
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Exercise - Create a package feed in Azure Artifacts
• Exercise - Create a pipeline for your package
• Exercise - Reference the package from the application
• Exercise - Push a change to your package
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• Choose a Microsoft-hosted or self-hosted build agent
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Exercise - Create a build agent that runs on Azure
• Exercise - Build the application using your agent
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is continuous delivery?
• Plan a release pipeline by using Azure Pipelines
• Exercise - Set up your environment
• Exercise - Deploy the web application to Azure App Service
• Exercise - Monitor the health of your pipeline
• Exercise - Clean up your environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• Design the pipeline
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Exercise - Promote to the Dev stage
• Exercise - Promote to the Test stage
• Exercise - Promote to Staging
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is functional testing?
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Plan the UI tests
• Write the UI tests
• Exercise - Run the UI tests locally and in the pipeline
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is nonfunctional testing?
• Exercise - Set up your Azure DevOps environment
• Plan load tests by using Apache JMeter
• Exercise - Run load tests in Azure Pipelines
• Exercise - Clean up your Azure DevOps environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• What are deployment patterns?
• Exercise - Set up your environment
• Exercise - Implement the blue-green deployment pattern
• Exercise - Push a change through the pipeline
• Exercise - Clean up your environment
• Summary

• Introduction
• What is Azure Automation State Configuration?
• Use PowerShell DSC to achieve a desired state
• Exercise - Set up a DSC and configure a desired state
• Summary

• Introduction
• How do I use GitHub Actions to create workflows for CI?
• Customize your workflow with environment variables and artifact data
• Exercise - Create the CI workflow on GitHub
• Knowledge check
• Summary