DevOps for Databases

DevOps for Databases
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Overview

Learn about the challenges and uncover the solutions for incorporating your database into a DevOps software development process

Earn a Certificate of completion from University of Minnesota on successful course completion
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Effort: 2-4 hours per week
Price: FREE
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Skills you will learn

Who should do this course?

This Specialization is intended for professionals who wants to learn about database into a DevOps software development process.

What are the course deliverables?

Define DevOps and understand DevOps in relation to Databases
Identify the challenges of using databases that are separate from other software languages and platforms
Include your database code alongside other application code in a version control system (VCS)
Set up a Continuous Integration (CI) platform for your database code
Write and include automated unit tests for your database code

More about this course

This course examines the challenges and solutions of incorporating your database into a DevOps software development process. This course will help you understand the challenges of working with various data stores while developing and changing your software at a rapid pace.You will learn where and how databases can fit into DevOps processes.The course will cover: Committing database code to a version control system (VCS), Continuous Integration and unit testing database code.
Release management for databases, in areas such as release gates, deploying releases to multiple environments, validating deployments with smoke tests and rolling back deployments.
Monitoring database code, branching and merging database code, cross databases dependencies, upgrading multiple databases, federated databases, dark launching, error handling and cleaning up technical debt with databases.