DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio and TFS 2017

By Benjamin Day
Have you ever worked on a project that's impossible to develop and harder to deploy? In this course, you'll explore DevOps in the Microsoft world to deploy your projects faster and more reliably by creating an automated DevOps release pipeline.
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(89)
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Intermediate
Updated
Oct 3, 2017
Duration
8h 48m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
DevOps: Focusing on What's Important
Introduction 3m DevOps: What, Why, and Where? 11m What's New for DevOps with TFS2017 and VS2017? 9m Outro 0m
Consolidating Your Team's Source Code with Version Control
Introduction 1m Why Version Control? 3m Two Types of Version Control in TFS 9m Git Basics 2m Demo: Git Basics 7m Demo: Git and Work Items 4m Demo: Git Get Latest 4m Demo: Handling Git Conflicts 6m Demo: Multiple Git Repos in TFS 3m Branching and Merging 3m Demo: Branching and Merging 5m Branching Risks 8m Demo: Code Reviews with Pull Requests 9m Summary 1m
DevOps Mindset and DevOps Metrics
Overview 1m Too Busy? 3m What Is Work? 7m DevOps Metrics: Lead Time and Cycle Time 6m DevOps Metrics: Wait Time 4m Bottlenecks and the Theory of Constraints 5m Summary 1m
Planning and Tracking Your Team's Work
Introduction 1m Scrum and Kanban Overview 7m TFS Process Templates and Work Items 4m Demo: Kanban with TFS 5m Demo: Scrum Product Backlog with TFS 4m Demo: Forecasting and Velocity with TFS 4m Demo: Plan a Scrum Sprint with TFS 8m Demo: Run a Daily Scrum Meeting with TFS 7m Demo: Visualize Project Status with TFS Dashboards 3m Demo: Work Item Queries and Work Item Charts 3m Demo: Email Alerts Using Follow Work Item 3m Lead Time and Cycle Time with TFS and Excel, Part 1 5m Demo: Lead Time and Cycle Time with TFS and Excel, Part 2 11m Summary 1m
Automating Builds and Deployments
Overview 1m Automated Builds in DevOps: Why Do I Care? 2m Separate Your Builds from Your Releases 7m Please, I'm Begging You, Deploy More Often 4m Demo: Create a Build for .NET Standard 9m Demo: Create a Build for .NET Core 5m Demo: Builds on Your TFS Dashboards 2m Demo: TFS Extensions in a Build 6m Installing the TFS Build and Release Agent 3m Demo: Configuring TFS Agent Capabilities 4m Summary 1m
Managing and Deploying SQL Server Database Code
Introduction 1m Database Deployment Is Critical to DevOps 6m Database Deployment Options for DevOps 7m Demo: Entity Framework Migrations for .NET Framework 6m Demo: Entity Framework Migrations for .NET Core 7m Demo: SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) 10m Demo: Schema Comparisons with SSDT 7m Demo: Lookup Data with SSDT 6m Demo: Command Line Deploys Using SSDT and SqlPackage.exe 5m Summary 2m
Feature Flags: Simplify Branching and Deployments
Introduction 0m Typical Branching Structure and Deployments 6m How Version Control-based Releases Break 4m What Are Feature Flags? 9m Demo Part 1 of 4: Tour of the Application 2m Demo Part 2 of 4: IFeatureManager and the Database 4m Demo Part 3 of 4: ASP.NET and Feature Flags 3m Demo Part 4 of 4: ASP.NET Controllers and Feature Flags 4m Demo: Multiple Versions of a Feature Side-by-side 6m Demo: Private Beta Tests Using Feature Flags 4m Summary 1m
DevOps Release Pipelines with Visual Studio Release Management
Overview 8m Demo: Create a TFS Release Definition 8m Demo: Server Phases, Agent Phases, and Human Interaction 5m Demo: Running Release Actions in Parallel 5m Demo: Multiple Environments and Environment-specific Configs 4m Demo: Approvals for Environment Deployments 3m Demo: Rollback and Abandon a Failed Release 3m Summary 1m
Deploying ASP.NET 4.6 with Release Management
Overview 1m Demo Part 1 of 2: Deploy ASP.NET to IIS and SQL Server 12m Demo Part 2 of 2: Deploy to a QA Environment with an Approval 6m Demo Part 1 of 3: Deploy ASP.NET to Azure 3m Demo Part 2 of 3: Connect TFS Build to Your Azure Subscription 6m Demo Part 3 of 3: Deploy SSDT to Azure SQL Database 5m Summary 1m
Deploying ASP.NET Core and EF Core with Release Management
Introduction 1m Demo Part 1 of 2: Configure the Build 4m Demo Part 2 of 2: Create the Release Definition 8m Demo: Add a QA Environment and Setup a Deployment Approval 4m Demo: Deploy ASP.NET Core and EF Core to Azure 6m Summary 1m
Deploying to Containers Using TFS Build and Release Management
Introduction 0m Container and Docker Overview 8m How to Docker-ize Your Application 5m Demo Overview 1m Demo: Quick Tour of Docker and Running SQL Server in a Container 3m Demo: Use a Dockerfile to Create Your Own Docker Image 4m Demo: Create a Dockerfile for an ASP.NET Core Application 5m Demo: Using Docker Compose to Describe Services 7m My Docker Lessons Learned (The Hard Way) 6m Demo: Build and Run Docker Images from a TFS Build 7m Summary 1m
QA Testing and Automated UI Tests with Selenium
Introduction 1m QA Testing and DevOps (a.k.a Traditional QA Is Broken) 4m The Testing Pyramid 1m Common Testing Mistakes of Agile/scrum Teams 1m Getting Started with 'New QA' 3m A Testing Tip for Agile/scrum Teams 1m Team Foundation Server and QA Testing 2m Demo: Create a Test Plan in TFS 3m Demo: Create Test Cases in TFS 4m Demo: Run Test Cases with the Chrome Extension 6m Demo: View the Results of a Previous Test Run 2m Demo: Run a Test Case and Create a Bug 3m Demo: Create/Manage TFS Test Configurations 3m Demo: Assign Test Cases to Testers 2m Demo: Exploratory Testing with the Chrome Extension 4m User Interface Automation Tests 8m Demo: Getting Started with Selenium and PhantomJS 6m Demo: Run Selenium Tests from a TFS Build using PhantomJS 8m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(89)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Oct 3, 2017
Duration
8h 48m
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
Course FAQ
What is DevOps in Microsoft?

"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.

What will I learn in this course?

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
What software is required?

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.

What prerequisites are needed?

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.

Who is this course for?

Developers, teams, or companies who are trying to understand and/or improve their software delivery.

About the author
Benjamin Day
About the author

Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft-based technology. He is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, a certified Scrum trainer via Scrum.org, and a speaker at conferences such as TechEd, DevTeach, and VSLive. He can be contacted via http://www.benday.com.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hey everyone. My name is Ben Day, and welcome to my course, DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio & TFS 2017. I'm a developer, a trainer, and a coach, and I specialize in helping teams and companies get good at software delivery. Whether that's helping them with Scrum, or software testing, or software architecture, or just listening to them vent, it's all in the goal of helping them to deliver great, done, working software, which brings us to the topic of this course: DevOps. Have you ever worked on a project that's just kind of awful? It's impossible to develop and even harder to deploy? Yeah, well, the goal with DevOps is to try to improve that and make everyone's life better so that you can deliver faster and more reliably. So this course is going to talk about doing DevOps in the Microsoft world. There'll be some theoretical stuff that'll try to get you into the DevOps mindset, and the rest is going to be a lot of practical stuff showing you how to take that mindset and actually do DevOps using Microsoft's tools and technologies. Some of the things we're going to talk about: Team Foundation Server; version control in Git; automated builds, automated testing, and automated deploys; streamlining source control and releases using feature flags; and TFS Release Management for doing continuous deployment. By the end of this course, you'll know why you should care about DevOps and how to set up your own automated DevOps release pipeline that'll deploy your apps into either an on-premise data center or Microsoft Azure. Now before you start this course, you'll probably want to know the basics of developing software using Visual Studio, and you might want to know a little bit about Scrum and project management, too. So I hope you'll dive in on this course and learn DevOps with my DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio & TFS 2017 course, here at Pluralsight.

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