Amazon famously delivers new code every 11.6 seconds. Just a few years ago, this was unthinkable: many ‘cutting edge’ firms would release software quarterly. When it comes to digital innovation, velocity is critical and many would say it’s the most reliable determinant of success.
Bringing an organization to the state of the art (or even functional capability) in this area requires strong work in a combination of disciplines and a combination of both technical and managerial skills. There is no single cookie-cutter approach for achieving this capability. Much like agile, the right focus and formulation depends a lot on the facts and circumstances of the team. This course will provide you with the interdisciplinary skill set to cultivate a continuous deployment capability in your organization.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
1. Diagnose a team’s delivery pipeline and bring forward prioritized recommendations to improve it
2. Explain the skill sets and roles involved in DevOps and how they contribute toward a continuous delivery capability
3. Review and deliver automation tests across the development stack
4. Explain the key jobs of system operations and how today’s leading techniques and tools apply to them
5. Explain how high-functioning teams use DevOps and related methods to reach a continuous delivery capability
6. Facilitate prioritized, iterative team progress on improving a delivery pipeline
Continuous Delivery & DevOps
Offered By
University of Virginia
About this Course
4.8
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What you will learn
How to diagnose a team’s delivery pipeline and bring forward prioritized recommendations to improve it
The skill sets and roles involved in DevOps and how they contribute toward a continuous delivery capability
How to review and deliver automation tests across the development stack
How to facilitate prioritized, iterative team progress on improving a delivery pipeline
Skills you will gain
DevopsContinuous DeliveryUnit TestingInfrastructure As CodeSystem Testing
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
1The Importance of Velocity & The Jobs of Delivery
If your job is to make software, you’re probably busy. Everyone needs new features yesterday. Stuff breaks. How do you make time to work smarter? How do you know where you should focus the time you do have for process improvement? In this week, we’ll cover the fundamentals of DevOps and continuous delivery with an emphasis on the relationship between required investment and benefits.
9 videos (Total 63 min), 1 quiz
9 videos
What Is a Delivery Pipeline?4m
What Is a Test Stack?7m
What Is DevOps?6m
The Job of Development and DevOps6m
The Job of Test and DevOps5m
The Job of Ops and DevOps5m
Interview with Jez Humble16m
Your Delivery Pipeline- Getting Started6m
1 practice exercise
Week 1- The Importance of Velocity & The Jobs of Delivery30m
Week
2Your Testing Stack
Focusing and automating your software testing is one of the most critical foundation elements to a continuous delivery capability. Thinking like a developer and looking at how to automate repetitive tasks is a lot of what DevOps collaboration is about. In this week, we’ll explore the test stack with a focus on the when and how’s of automated testing.
14 videos (Total 76 min), 1 quiz
14 videos
How Many Tests?6m
Demo: Introduction to Our Sample Application5m
Demo: Introduction to Our Sample Code3m
Demo: Sample Code7m
The Small/Unit Test3m
Unit Test Example7m
Unit Test Practice Example2m
The Medium/Integration Test6m
The Medium/Integration Test Example3m
The Large/System Test6m
Introduction to System Testing4m
System Test Example10m
Creating a Culture of Experimentation2m
1 practice exercise
Week 2- Your Testing Stack30m
Week
3Infrastructure and The Jobs of Ops
Something like 99% of the code that delivers your functionality to the user is code you don’t write- it’s an operating system and supporting packages from third parties. The quality and availability of standard components has driven down the cost of software development exponentially. It’s also increased the importance of managing this supporting code and the environments where it runs to support your application. In this week, we’ll look at the techniques and tools teams are using to manage their environments and operations for continuous delivery.
12 videos (Total 54 min), 1 quiz
12 videos
Who Is this Ops Person?6m
The Job of Ops Sys Admin6m
The Job of Designing5m
The Job of Deploying2m
The Job of Maintaining3m
The Job of Monitoring3m
Version Control 1016m
The Role of Version Control5m
What's Under the Hood?6m
Kubernetes and Container Orchestration4m
Week Close48s
1 practice exercise
Week 3- Infrastructure and The Jobs of Ops30m
Week
4Delivering Continuously
You now have an understanding of the key components of a continuous delivery capability. The key to success is focusing on the right things at the right time and creating momentum with your initial investments on the capability. In this final week, we’ll look at how teams get their continuous capability online and keep their pipeline healthy.
11 videos (Total 77 min), 1 quiz
11 videos
The CI/CD Process7m
Feature Flags and the Blue/Green Pattern6m
Interview with Adam Zimman at LaunchDarkly6m
Microservices vs. Monoliths3m
Interview with Jim Rose4m
Interview with Ricardo at Circle14m
Interview with Emma Bukacek at Circle4m
Interview with Sam Aronoff at Honey11m
Interview with David at Intuit11m
Course Wrap-up2m
1 practice exercise
Week 4- Delivering Continuously30m
Instructor
Alex Cowan
Faculty & Batten FellowDarden School of Business
About University of Virginia
A premier institution of higher education, The University of Virginia offers outstanding academics, world-class faculty, and an inspiring, supportive environment. Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, the University is guided by his vision of discovery, innovation, and development of the full potential of students from all walks of life. Through these courses, global learners have an opportunity to study with renowned scholars and thought leaders.
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