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AZ 400: Design and implement a release strategy
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Microsoft 
Overview

Duration

5 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Advanced

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AZ 400: Design and implement a release strategy
 at 
Microsoft 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Introduction to continuous delivery
  • Create a release pipeline
  • Explore release recommendations
  • Provision and test environments
  • Manage and modularize tasks and templates
  • Automate inspection of health
More about this course
  • This learning path explains the concepts of continuous delivery and releases strategy considerations for setting up deployment stages and your delivery and deployment cadence, and lastly, setting up your release approvals
  • This learning path helps prepare you for Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
  • This module introduces continuous delivery concepts and their implementation in a traditional IT development cycle
  • This course details target environment provisioning, service connections creation process, and test infrastructure setup

AZ 400: Design and implement a release strategy
 at 
Microsoft 
Curriculum

Introduction to continuous delivery

Introduction

Explore traditional IT development cycle

What is continuous delivery?

Move to continuous delivery

Understand releases and deployments

Understand release process versus release

Knowledge check

Summary

Create a release pipeline

Introduction

Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities

Explore release pipelines

Explore artifact sources

Choose the appropriate artifact source

Exercise - Select an artifact source

Examine considerations for deployment to stages

Exercise - Set up stages

Explore build and release tasks

Explore custom build and release tasks

Explore release jobs

Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML

Knowledge check

Summary

Explore release recommendations

Introduction

Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers

Exercise - Select your delivery and deployment cadence

Explore release approvals

Exercise - Set up manual approvals

Explore release gates

Use release gates to protect quality

Control deployments using release gates

Knowledge check

Summary

Provision and test environments

Introduction

Provision and configure target environments

Exercise - Set up service connections

Configure automated integration and functional test automation

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Set up and run availability tests

Explore Azure Load Testing

Set up and run functional tests

Knowledge check

Summary

Manage and modularize tasks and templates

Introduction

Examine task groups

Exercise - create and manage task groups

Explore variables in release pipelines

Understand variable groups

Exercise - create and manage variable groups

Knowledge check

Summary

Automate inspection of health

Introduction

Automate inspection of health

Explore events and notifications

Explore service hooks

Exercise - Set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline

Configure Azure DevOps notifications

Configure GitHub notifications

Explore how to measure quality of your release process

Examine release notes and documentation

Examine considerations for choosing release management tools

Explore common release management tools

Create a release dashboard

Knowledge check

Summary

AZ 400: Design and implement a release strategy
 at 
Microsoft 
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