DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio and TFS 2017
By Benjamin Day
Course info



Course info



Description
There's a huge divide between software that's developed and software that's delivered. DevOps helps you bridge that divide. It's a mindset plus a set of practices that focuses on automation, reliability, and optimizing the process of software delivery.
In this course, DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio and TFS 2017, will show you how to use the tools and features of Visual Studio 2017 and Team Foundation Server 2017 to create an automated DevOps release pipeline for your applications.
First, you'll learn how to build and deploy applications written with ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, and Entity Framework Core.
Next, you'll explore how to think about and measure your DevOps practices, and your multi-environment deployments to on-premise data centers, Microsoft Azure, and Docker.
Finally, you'll discover how to utilize QA testing with TFS 2017, and automated UI testing using Selenium.
By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary skills and knowledge to set up your own automated DevOps release pipeline that will deploy your applications into either an on-premise data center or Microsoft Azure.
Course FAQ
"DevOps" is derived from combining "development" and "operations" into one discipline. It bridges the gap between developing software, and delivering it. DevOps is comprised of practices to improve automation, reliability, and optimization of software delivery.
You will learn:
- Tools & features of Visual Studio 2017
- Tools & features of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017
- How to create an automated DevOps release pipeline
- How to build and deploy applications
- DevOps best practices
- Multi-environment deployments
- QA testing with TFS 2017
- Automated UI testing through Selenium
- And more
This course will use Visual Studio 2017 and Team Foundation Server 2017, but most of the principles and concepts should apply to newer and older versions as well.
Before starting this course, you should know some of the basics of developing software with Visual Studio, and it wouldn't hurt to have some exposure to Scrum and project management, too.
Developers, teams, or companies who are trying to understand and/or improve their software delivery.