Building a Deployment Pipeline for .NET Applications

Pluralsight

Course Summary

There is a big difference between working code and deployed code. This course will teach you how to build a deployment pipeline, all the way from building software locally to deploying it into production.

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Course Description

At the core of agile software development is fast feedback. In this course, Building a Deployment Pipeline for .NET Applications, you'll learn how you can take your application from the development environment to production through a set of well-defined steps. First, you'll dive into the anatomy of a deployment pipeline. Next, you'll discover how to script the building process. Finally, you'll learn how to test your application, and how to deploy it to a production environment. By the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge to efficiently create a deployment pipeline, and tailor it to the needs of your application.

Course Description

At the core of agile software development is fast feedback. In this course, Building a Deployment Pipeline for .NET Applications, you'll learn how you can take your application from the development environment to production through a set of well-defined steps. First, you'll dive into the anatomy of a deployment pipeline. Next, you'll discover how to script the building process. Finally, you'll learn how to test your application, and how to deploy it to a production environment. By the end of this course, you'll have the knowledge to efficiently create a deployment pipeline, and tailor it to the needs of your application.

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Course Syllabus

Course Overview
- 1m 26s

—Course Overview 1m 26s

Understanding the Anatomy of a Deployment Pipeline
- 10m 37s

—Introduction 0m 29s
—Why Deployment Automation? 1m 16s
—Anatomy of a Deployment Pipeline 4m 27s
—Demo: Deployment Pipeline in Actopm 3m 42s
—Summary 0m 40s

Standardizing the Build Process
- 22m 9s

—Introduction 2m 15s
—Introducing Invoke-build 0m 39s
—Installing Invoke-build 3m 30s
—Adding the Clean Task 2m 54s
—Adding the Compile Task 4m 33s
—Adding the Test Task 2m 28s
—Adding the Pack Task 5m 11s
—Summary 0m 35s

Executing Build Scripts
- 9m 39s

—Introduction 0m 52s
—Configuring TeamCity 3m 42s
—Configuring Jenkins 2m 12s
—Configuring AppVeyor 2m 17s
—Summary 0m 34s

Deploying to a Test Environment
- 21m 16s

—Introduction 0m 52s
—Configuring Azure 1m 39s
—Configuring Octopus Deploy 5m 46s
—Creating a Deployment Process 1m 56s
—Pushing the Package 2m 28s
—Creating a Release 1m 55s
—Triggering a Deployment 1m 19s
—Configuring Zero Downtime Deployments 3m 4s
—Running the Deployment Pipeline 2m 12s

Executing Tests
- 24m 3s

—Introduction 2m 19s
—Creating Smoke Tests 4m 51s
—Acceptance Tests 3m 23s
—Running Acceptance Tests Locally 2m 47s
—Running Acceptance Tests on the Build Server 2m 26s
—Triggering Acceptance Tests from Octopus Deploy 7m 23s
—Summary 0m 50s

Deploying to Production
- 17m 18s

—Introduction 1m 4s
—Creating the Live Environment 1m 4s
—Deploying to Live 1m 47s
—Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment 3m 46s
—Implementing Continuous Deployment 2m 1s
—Executing the Deployment Pipeline 2m 29s
—Extending the Pipeline 4m 22s
—Resources 0m 42s