WinOps – CI/CD with Microsoft Azure Stack: VSTS and TFS 2018

DevOps blurs the lines between Development and Operations, when harmonized with Agile practices. It addresses good practices for delivering world class solutions. VSTS and TFS can help you plan and code your application, now it's time to start looking at how to set up continuous integration, deployment, testing, monitoring, delivery, and all of the essential elements of DevOps and OpsDev. If you're a DevOps professional who wants to learn how to implement leading DevOps processes within Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2018, then this Learning Path is for you.

This comprehensive 2-in-1 course offers you an in-depth introduction to the DevOps processes with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server 2018 with all of its essential elements, explores the concepts of scaling enterprise agile, and gives you a comprehensive guide to planning your continuous delivery pipeline. You will learn how to build, configure, and deploy in code. You will also learn how to get insights of your application to monitor and measure it in real time.

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

In the first course, WinOps - DevOps on the Microsoft Azure Stack: VSTS and TFS 2018, you will delve into real-world leading approaches to plan your solution delivery with the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server 2018. You will work on learning how to use VSTS and TFS to visualize your backlogs, manage work items, manage the defect lifecycle, and make sure that the whole process can be easily followed by everyone within your organization. You will also get to know how Kanban and Lean are essential for an optimized DevOps process and continuous improvement. With the help of this course, implement Kanban and Lean to manage your work in process (WIP). This course, makes you comfortable with dashboards and queries, which play an important role within every successful DevOps implementation, representing how to measure and monitor business value delivered. You will learn to set up dashboards to provide a window into what is happening across the portfolio, project and team levels. Alerts and notifications will then help you implement enterprise collaboration (ChatOps) within your organization. Learn to create alerts, notifications and integrate external applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Finally, work on customizing the processes on VSTS and TFS, work items, fields and workflow states along with advanced configuration options to make sure that the process you have is best suited for your team needs.

In the second course, WinOps – Continuous Delivery with Azure, you will start by looking at the vNext build system. You'll learn how to create build definitions, configuration as code (YML) for your needs, and use hosted or private agents to make sure you have all the prerequisites available to build your containerized platforms. After that, you'll extend your pipeline by autonomous deployment capabilities. You'll see how to create the deployment pipeline across different environments, all while making sure that the necessary approvals and checks are in place. Adding continuous testing is the next step. You’ll learn how to add automation to both your build and release step. You'll also look at using Azure to run automated (UI/API) and performance engineering load tests. Another important step in implementing your DevOps process is continuous insight through monitoring. Application Insights is an Artificial Intelligent enabled Microsoft’s solution when it comes to monitoring your applications. You will also see how Intelligent Automation (IA) through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help you detect problems in your application and how it can be utilized them to achieve continuous delivery.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to implement leading DevOps processes within Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2018.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Jonathon Wright is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, intelligent automation and cognitive adoption (deep learning), and has more than 20 years of international commercial experience within global organizations. He is currently the CTO for Digital-Assured based in Oxford in the UK, advocacy board director for various non-profit organization such as Vivit-Worldwide and is a representative of the European Commission on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Jonathon combines his practical experience and leadership with real-world insights behind the core principles and practices underpinning Enterprise AI, Smart Cities (IoT / C2X & I2X) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Thus, he is frequently in demand as a keynote speaker at international conferences such as TED, Gartner, Oracle, AISummit, Unicom, EuroSTAR, STAREast, and STARWest. Jonathon is the author of several award-winning books.