Continuous Delivery for Practitioners – 2 Days Workshop

Program Overview: Two Day Training and Coaching – Hands-on workshop

This 2 day training course is an introduction for practitioners to Continuous Delivery – a delivery method that advocates the creation of an automated Deployment Pipeline to release software rapidly and reliably into production.

The goal of Continuous Delivery is to adopt a holistic end-to-end delivery perspective and optimise cycle time – the average time from code checkin to production release – so that costs are lowered, risks are minimised, and revenues are increased via faster customer feedback. This training course will explain the principles of Continuous Delivery, how to automate a Deployment Pipeline including zero-downtime production releases, and how combining Continuous Delivery with DevOps can deliver success in both startup and enterprise organisations.

Learning Outcomes

In this course, you will learn:

• What Continuous Delivery is, and why it has such a compelling business case
• How the Deployment Pipeline pattern enables a reliable, repeatable automated release mechanism
• How to weave together different technologies to form an automated pipeline
• How development practices can enable the evolutionary design of an always releasable codebase
• How automated acceptance testing, smoke testing, and operational testing reduce risk and empower testers
• How incremental releases and database updates enable zero-downtime production releases
• Why Continuous Delivery needs organisational change, and how DevOps can help

You only need a laptop if you wish to take electronic notes – course and exercise materials are supplied.

Agenda

This training course comprises 2 days of in-depth discussions and group exercises aimed at developers, technical leaders, architects, operations engineers, testers, performance engineers, etc.

Day 1:

1. What is Continuous Delivery

• Discussion: Your Release Process
• The Last Mile Problem
• What Is Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Delivery Principles

2. The Deployment Pipeline

• The Deployment Pipeline
• Deployment Pipeline Practices
• Work In Small Batches
• Exercise: Isabel’s Issued Invites [Lean Envelopes]

3. Building A Pipeline

• Deployment Pipeline Toolchain
• Automated Configuration
• Automated Infrastructure
• Deployment Pipeline Patterns

4. Developing For The Pipeline

• Trunk Based Development
• Incremental Design Practices
• Effective Architecture
• Discussion: Your Pipeline

Day 2:

1. Testing In The Pipeline
   • Discussion: Your Testing
   • Continuous Testing
   • Automated Testing Patterns
   • Testing External Systems
2. Operations In The Pipeline:
   • Release And Remediation Plan
   • Incremental Release Patterns
   • Databases And Data
   • Business Monitoring
3. Organisational Change

• Exercise: Percy’s Paper Planes [Lean Aeroplanes]
• The Need For Change
• How To Drive Change
• Discussion: Your Organisation

4. Adopting Continuous Delivery
   • Exercise: Dialogue Sheet
   • Discussion: Your Adoption Plan

Audience               max 20 practitioners
Duration                2 days
Location                On site