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

Master DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) & Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2018

Unlock the power of DevOps and streamline your software delivery with this comprehensive learning path. This training focuses on harmonizing Development and Operations using Agile practices to deliver world-class solutions. Learn to leverage VSTS and TFS 2018 for planning, coding, and implementing essential DevOps processes.

Who is this for? This learning path is ideal for DevOps professionals seeking to implement leading DevOps processes within Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2018.

What you'll learn:

• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Build, configure, and deploy code automatically.
• Application Monitoring: Gain real-time insights into your application performance.
• Scaling Agile: Explore concepts for scaling enterprise Agile methodologies.
• Continuous Delivery Pipeline: Develop a comprehensive plan for your continuous delivery pipeline.
• Kanban & Lean: Implement Kanban and Lean principles to optimize your DevOps workflow and manage Work In Progress (WIP).
• Dashboarding & Querying: Create insightful dashboards and queries to measure and monitor business value.
• Alerts & Notifications (ChatOps): Implement enterprise collaboration with alerts and notifications, integrating with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.
• VSTS/TFS Customization: Customize processes, work items, fields, and workflows to fit your team's specific needs.
• vNext Build System: Create build definitions and use configuration as code (YAML) for containerized platforms.
• Autonomous Deployment: Extend your pipeline with autonomous deployment capabilities across different environments.
• Automated Testing: Add automation to build and release steps, including UI/API and performance engineering load tests using Azure.
• Application Insights: Utilize Application Insights, Microsoft's AI-enabled monitoring solution, for comprehensive application monitoring.
• Intelligent Automation (IA) / Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Detect application problems and leverage RPA for continuous delivery.

Course Breakdown:

Course 1: WinOps - DevOps on the Microsoft Azure Stack: VSTS and TFS 2018

• Plan solution delivery using VSTS and TFS 2018.
• Visualize backlogs, manage work items, and manage the defect lifecycle.
• Implement Kanban and Lean for optimized DevOps processes.
• Create and configure dashboards and queries to measure business value.
• Set up alerts and notifications for enterprise collaboration (ChatOps).
• Customize VSTS and TFS processes, work items, fields, and workflows.

Course 2: WinOps – Continuous Delivery with Azure

• Utilize the vNext build system and configuration as code (YAML).
• Create deployment pipelines across different environments with approvals and checks.
• Implement continuous testing and automation for build and release steps.
• Leverage Azure for automated testing (UI/API and performance).
• Implement continuous insight through monitoring with Application Insights.
• Apply Intelligent Automation (IA) / RPA for problem detection and continuous delivery.

Meet Your Expert:

This learning path is guided by Jonathon Wright, a strategic thought leader, technology evangelist, and CTO with over 20 years of international experience. Jonathon is a renowned expert in emerging technologies, intelligent automation, and cognitive adoption (deep learning). He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and the author of several award-winning books.