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Continuous Delivery and DevOps with Azure DevOps: Release Pipelines
Microsoft Azure DevOps is a toolset to deliver your software in a compliant and secure way to an on-premises or cloud environment. In this course, you'll learn how to automate the steps of releasing software to any environment using Azure DevOps
What you'll learn
Continuous delivery and DevOps require you to fully automate the build and release process in a repeatable and reliable way. In this course, Continuous Delivery and DevOps with Azure DevOps: Release Pipelines, you'll learn how to set up release automation using Azure DevOps. First, you'll explore the fundamentals of release automation and the distinction you need between a deployment and a release. This enables you to release multiple times per day without interrupting your services. Next, you'll dive into the concepts of configuration and infrastructure as code. Finally, you'll conclude this course with security, approvals, and audit trails so you can ensure all your release pipelines are audit proof. By the end of this course, you'll have the necessary knowledge to create a fully automated build and release pipeline that is secure and compliant by default.
Table of contents
- Introduction | 45s
- Outline | 1m 6s
- Release Management in the Context of Continuous Delivery | 2m 17s
- Separating Deployment from Release | 2m 45s
- Steps of a Release | 1m 49s
- Azure DevOps Release Management | 1m 43s
- Release Management Concepts | 1m 18s
- Artifacts, Stages, and Gates | 1m 41s
- Agent Jobs and Tasks | 1m 46s
- Release Variables | 1m 36s
- Continuous Deployment Trigger | 1m 37s
- Create a Release for an ASP.NET Web Application | 6m 4s
- Release Management Infrastructure | 2m 26s
- Hybrid Release Management | 53s
- Set up a Custom Agent | 7m 3s
- Deployment Groups | 1m 18s
- Deploy to a Deployment Group | 5m 54s
- Summary | 1m 18s
About the author
Marcel is the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, a high-end consulting firm based in Hilversum, Netherlands. Helping organizations transform towards a high speed, innovative, and productive organization is his passion.