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Azure DevOps Hands-On Labs

Evaluating your next DevOps tool chain? Want to dive deeper and learn how you can implement modern DevOps practice?

Learn to plan smartly, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern development services.

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• Automated CI/CD pipelines
• Free unlimited private Git repositories
• Configurable Kanban boards, and
• Extensive automated and cloud-based load testing tools.

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• Azure DevOps
• Team Foundation Server

Getting started

Simplify and speed up the DevOps process with Azure DevOps services. The following labs will help you to get started with Azure DevOps services to automate software delivery and meet business needs.

• Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
• Version Controlling with Azure Repos
• Package Management with Azure Artifacts

• Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Embracing Continuous Delivery with Azure Pipelines
• Test Planning and Management with Azure Test Plans

• Exploratory Testing with Azure Test Plans
• Web Application Load and Performance Testing
• Managing Project Schedules across Teams with Delivery Plans

• Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
• Collaborating with Azure DevOps Wiki
• Configuring Build as Code with YAML in Azure Pipelines

Deep Dive into Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps provides integration with popular open source and third-party tools and services—across the entire DevOps workflow. Use the tools and languages you know. Spend less time integrating and more time delivering higher-quality software, faster.

• Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly
• Deploying to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Integrate your GitHub Projects with Azure Pipelines
• Integrating with Jenkins
• Deploying a Java Application on Tomcat
• Technical Debt Management with SonarQube

• Developing with Eclipse for Java Projects
• Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service
• Deploying a Dockerized Java app to Azure Web App for Containers
• Integrating Octopus Deploy
• OSS Governance with WhiteSource
• Driving Continuous Testing with Selenium

• Working with Deployment Groups
• Deploying Azure Functions using Azure Pipelines
• Controlling Deployments using Release Gates
• DevOps for Node.js with VSTS and Azure
• How to Deploy a Python Application to Azure from VSTS
• Deploying a PHP Application to Azure

• Modernizing your Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure
• Managing Technical Debt using VSTS and SonarCloud
• Leverage Virtual Services with Parasoft Virtualize
• Track Time With 7pace Timetracker

Prerequisites

In order to complete these labs you will need:

• Azure DevOps services Organization: You will need an Azure DevOps services account. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for one, from here
• Microsoft Azure Account: You will need a valid and active Azure account. If you do not have one,
  • You can create a free Azure account and enjoy 12 months of free Azure services
  • If you are a Visual Studio Active Subscriber, you are entitled for a $50-$150 credit per month. You can refer to this link to find out more including how to activate and start using your monthly Azure credit.
• Azure DevOps Demo Generator: You can use the Azure DevOps Demo Generator to provision a project with pre-defined data on to your Azure DevOps services organization.

Learn how you can remove barriers between teams, encourage collaboration, and improve the flow of value to your customers with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Agile Planning

• Agile Planning and Portfolio Management

• Agile Work Item Management

• Introduction to the Modern Requirements Suite4TFS

• Managing Delivery Plans

Develop

• Collaboration Experiences for Development Teams with Wiki
• Developer Experience Enhancements
• Making Developers More Productive
• Working with EditorConfig

• Debugging with IntelliTrace
• Generate Unit Tests with IntelliTest
• SQL Prompt

• Debugging with Snapshot Debugger
• Live Dependency Validation
• Using Code Analysis to Improve Code Quality

• Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace
• Live Unit Testing, Code Coverage and Code Clone Analysis
• Version Control with Git

Continuous Integration

• Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube

• Package Management

• Enabling Continuous Delivery

Test Management and Execution

• Unit Testing, Code Coverage and Code Clone Analysis
• UI Automation using Coded UI Tests

• Generate Unit Tests with IntelliTest
• Web Application Load and Performance Testing

• Test Planning and Management

• Exploratory Testing and Feedback Management

Continuous Delivery

• Embracing Continuous Delivery with Release Management

• Develop and Deploy Databases with ReadyRoll

Application Monitoring

• Instrumenting ASP.NET with Application Insights

Azure

• Authoring ARM Templates with Visual Studio

• Deploying a SQL Database Backed ASP.NET App to Azure

Get the accompanying VM

To make it easy for you to follow the labs, we offer a virtual machine pre-installed with Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 (15.5), Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018, Office and pre-configured with sample projects, users and data.

You can get access to the virtual machine the following ways:

• Download the Virtual Machine - You can download the virtual machine, if you prefer to use it offline. The size of the download is about 18 GB and we highly recommend that you use a download manager to download the VHD file. The Accessing the VM page has detailed instructions on downloading the VM, including links to both current and the previous versions of TFS labs.
• Try it on Microsoft Hands-on Labs - If you are evaluating or want to try the labs without the hassle of downloading or setting up the virtual machine, you can access them from the Microsoft Hands-on-Labs center. You only need a browser. There is absolutely no download or setup required!
• Run it on Azure - Though the VM is currently not supported to run on Azure, you can simply upload the VHD to Azure as a specialized VHD and create a VM from it. Thanks to Pieter Gheysens who has written a PowerShell script to create VM instances based on the ALM VM. His blog has more details. If you want to and customize and upload the VHD yourself, please see this article for step-by-step instructions - Create a Windows VM from a specialized disk