Azure DevOps Corporate Training

Azure DevOps Corporate Training

DevOps is a combination of best practices, philosophies and tools that enable an organization to speed up software delivery process. In short, DevOps enables an organization to serve their customers better and being able to adapt quickly to their needs serves as their competitive edge and makes your organization more successful than the competitors.

In this training you'll learn about DevOps and master the various aspects of software development, operations, continuous integration, automation, and deployment. You will learn to implement all these aspects using the various tools offered by Azure DevOps like Sprint Planning and Tracking, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Unit testing with Visual Studio, Azure Test Plans, Azure Artifacts and more to automate multiple steps in SDLC.

If your company prefers a more customized approach, our training can also be customized based upon your requirements at cost-effective rates. Please contact us at trainings@dotnettricks.com for more details. The following topics will be covered in this training.

Setting Up Development Environment

• Installing Visual Studio 2019
• Installing VS Code
• Useful Visual Studio Extensions for Development

Introduction to DevOps

1. Understanding DevOps
2. DevOps Ecosystem
3. DevOps Advantages
4. DevOps Market Trends
5. DevOps Engineer Skills
6. DevOps Delivery Pipeline

Azure DevOps

1. What is Azure DevOps
2. VSTS vs. Azure DevOps
3. Core Concepts
4. Azure DevOps vs. TFS
5. Pricing Tiers

Configuring DevOps Organization and Project

1. Creating Azure DevOps organization
2. Creating and configuring a new team project
3. Manage and Configuring teams in VSTS
4. Cloning a Git repository into your team project
5. Services available in Azure DevOps
6. Marketplace

Agile Planning and Azure Boards

1. Overview of Agile planning tools
2. Create a Project Backlog
3. PowerPoint storyboarding

Sprint Planning and Tracking

1. Sprint Planning
2. Identifying user stores for the next sprint
3. Capacity planning
4. Defining tasks to complete a user story
5. Adjust work to fit team capacity
6. Sharing a sprint with stakeholders
7. Managing work using teams
8. Tracking progress using Kanban and task boards
9. Querying Items

Azure Repos

1. Introduction to Git
2. Git Workflow
3. Git Concepts - Repository, Fork, Branch, Clone, Commit, Pull Requests
4. Using Git and Git Tools
5. Creating a local repository
6. Cloning a remote repository

Azure Artifacts

1. Introduction
2. Create and host packages
3. Using shared packages
4. Protect your packages

Azure Pipelines

1. Introduction to Pipelines
2. Core Concepts - Agents, Artifacts, Deployment Target, Pipeline, Build, Release

Automating Builds (CI)

1. Create your first Pipeline using Visual Designer
2. Using YAML for configuring Pipelines
3. Build and Deploy .NET Core App
4. Customizing your build using tasks
5. A closer look at build attributes
6. Triggering builds

Creating Automated Release Pipelines (CD)

1. Overview of release management
2. Understanding artifacts
3. Creating a release definition
4. Understanding environments
5. Approval workflows and notifications

Azure Test Plans

1. Types of tests
2. Test planning with Microsoft Test Manager
3. Test Plan, test suite, test case
4. Running manual tests using the Test Runner
5. Creating bug work items

In the DevOps world, the same team is responsible for both development as well as operations and there is only one mantra and it’s continuous improvement. At DotNetTricks, we help clients not only with the understanding the benefits of DevOps, but also with the right way of implementing it. Our Azure DevOps Experts are awarded by Microsoft as Microsoft MVP. They are committed to the vision of transforming our clients and their team by providing the best training experience.

Contact Us today to learn more about what our experts can do for you.