Continuous Integration Boot Camp

Course Code: 1779

$2750

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Overview

This hands-on continuous integration training course enables participants to implement continuous integration techniques and practices to achieve better code quality better maintenance and speed to delivery. During this 3-day instructor-led course, participants will learn fundamental concepts, practical application and workflow integration skills necessary for successful CI implementation. The course is designed to teach effective CI skills for teams who utilize either open-source toolsets or proprietary technology stacks such as Microsoft. The course features Microsoft Visual Studio and Jenkins CI as testbeds for your own hands-on continuous integration lab practice.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Set up and navigate a CI environment that enables automated testing & automated builds
Execute releases in test environments prior to product delivery
Identify the most efficient CI tools for quick release & reliable maintenance of products
Integrate Continuous Integration methods & techniques into current workflow for a SCM environment
Deliver value from continuous integration in your own organization
Examine real world examples of continuous integration benefits

Outline

Part I: Continuous Integration overview

Module 1: The difference between integration, deployment and delivery

Continuous integration
Continuous deployment
Continuous delivery

Module 2: Continuous integration flow

Checking for updates
Extracting code
Integrating updates into a test environment
Reviewing test results
Integrating updates into the build
Demo
Make a change in CI environment
Check-in update
View code analysis report
View test results
Verify builds

Part II: Advantages of continuous integration

Module 3: Reaping the benefits of continuous integration

Reduce implementation effort
Increase speed of resolution
Improve quality & maintenance of each product release
Increase speed of delivery

Module 4: Communicating analytics with clients and managers

High transparency
Running tests in the real world
Updating code with changing requirements
Quiz
Fundamentals of continuous integration
Execution of continuous integration
Testing results of continuous integration

Module 5: Companies utilizing CI techniques successfully

Discussion regarding real-world companies which have successfully integrated continuous integration into common practice.

Module 6: Case studies for continuous integration

Production changes every 11.6 seconds at Amazon
The Facebook release process
Continuous delivery at Google
The Software revolution behind LinkedIn’s gushing profits | Business | WIRED
Deploying the Netflix API
Tesla utilizing continuous upgrades
How Etsy deploys more than 50 times a day

Module 7: Class discussion

How did each company in these reports utilize continuous integration?
How CI was most likely implemented in each example?
How would you apply CI to your own production environment?

Part III: Implementing a CI environment

Module 8: Creating and managing a source code repository

Distributed code repositories
Choosing the right tools: Repository tools review
Separating requirements and dependencies
To use branches or not to use branches?

Module 9: Configure automated deployment

Configuring the DHPC server
Source commit check
Starting with simple deployment scripts
Real-time bug alerts

Module 10: Creating automated tests

Unit testing
User interface testing
API testing
Regression testing
Load testing
Security testing

Module 11: Lab exercises

Create a source code repository
Build an automated test
Check new code into repository
Run a unit test on new code

Check out an object to be modified
Apply modifications n the database test environment
Run tests to verify changes have not broken the build
Check-in object for final authentication

Module 18: Database versioning approaches

Task-based development
Compare and sync
Database versioning checks
Upgrade scripts and parallel development

Module 19: Lab exercises

Modify an object in a test environment
Check-in modifications to the repository
Run unit tests to check against changes
Run final test for deployment

Part V: Maintaining a CI environment

Module 20: Implementing the build, deploy, test and release process

Software configuration
Automatic launch
Test report generation
Submit to testers

Module 23: Lab exercises

Set up the Jenkins build server
Run a shell script
Archive the build result
Run integration tests
Run report on test results

Module 22: Setting up the CI server

CI environment, standard workflows and core tech architecture
Software Configuration Management (SCM)
Setting up Jenkins as a CI server
Open source CI tools
Build automation tools for CI
Recommended learning resources

Part VI: Agile tools for continuous integration

Module 21: Product maintainability and monitoring

Reliability, availability, maintainability – Why you need all three
Criteria for ‘pass’ requirements
Scope and scalability
Consistent updating of software functionality
Analytics and reporting

Prerequisites

There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course. However, completing the Fundamentals of DevOps course prior to taking up this course would be beneficial.