Implementing Continuous Integration

This course provides knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps practices of continuous integration. Students will learn how to implement continuous integration in an Azure DevOps pipeline, how to manage code quality and security principles, and how to implement a container build strategy.

What you'll learn

Explain why continuous integration matters

Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Configure builds and the options available

Create an automated build workflow

Integrate other build tooling with Azure DevOps

Create hybrid build processes

Describe what is meant by code quality and how it is measured

Detect code smells

Integrate automated tests for code quality

Report on code coverage during testing

Add tooling to measure technical debt

Detect open source and other licensing issues

Implement a container build strategy

Prerequisites

Students should have fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.

It is recommended that you have experience working in an IDE, as well as some knowledge of the Azure portal. However, students who may not have a technical background in these technologies, but who are curious about DevOps practices as a culture shift, should be able to follow the procedural and expository explanations of continuous integration regardless.

Course Staff

Greg BlueShirt

Dr Greg Low is a long-term Microsoft MVP and a member of the Microsoft Regional Director program. He is the CEO and Principal Mentor at SQL Down Under, based in Australia. Greg works with a wide range of customers from start-ups to tier-one financials, and also regularly mentors developers in software development organizations. He has a pragmatic approach to removing technical roadblocks and is frequently involved in effecting change within technical organizations.