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In this challenge you will create a VSTS account, invite users, set up a project and create a team with your colleagues. If you need help check out the hints for this challenge.
Create a custom process template called "RedBlueAgileTemplate" based on agile template
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Create new Portfolio Backlog Levels "Scenario" and "Vision"
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Create a new Work Item Type "Scenario" and make it the default WorkItem for the Backlog Level "Scenario" do the same for "Vision".
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Modify your team project to inherit from this template.
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Customize your board to display items which are done in green + also display Epics
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Create a style rule to display Items which have not been moved for 7 days in red
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Create sample work items with releationships (e.g. parent/child). Create them in a hierarchical manner. Start at Feature / Epic level or higher and build up the whole tree down to Task level.
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Link work items, view history
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Modify dashboard to show Reports & Stats (Come back to this after completing challenges 4, 5 and 6 to finish this Goal)
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Modify dashboard to show team members, your current workitems, nr of bugs
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Bonus Goals
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Add a few styling rules to your board highlighting important Items ( e.g. Bugs or Items with a special Tag)
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Add a custom state Testing in your Work Item
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Add a custom field 'Coffee consumed in liters' on your work item
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Modify your work view to display the new hierarchy level
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Customize your board to display Id, owner and the value of your new custom field
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DevOps Challenge #3 - Version Control
In this challenge, you will set up version control, upload code and configure policies.
If you need help check out the Version Control Hints.
Modify your repo to require a pull request to merge code into your master branch
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Modify your repo to require a Work Item linked to a pull request
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Configure your repo to require at least one of your colleagues as approver
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Create a new Branch. Check it out and modify code locally changing the displayed Name of the Demo Website. Commit the change, then initiate and complete a pull request. Link a work item and follow the review process.
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Bonus Goals
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Investigate the history of the file committed following the trace from the work item
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(With several teammembers:) Create a merge conflict on purpose and solve it
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Integrate an external Git Repository (e.g. hosted on GitHub) and wire it up for CI
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Discuss: What would be an appropriate code flow & branching stratgey in Git?
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Discuss: What are the main differentiators between TFVS and Git?
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Revisite this Challenge after you have successfully created a Build definition and change the Branch Policie to also require a successful build. Create a Pull Request to see it working.
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DevOps Challenge #4 - Build Configuration for CI
In this challenge, you will set up a build definition for your project and configure it for continuous integration.
If you need help check out the Build Configuration Hints.
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Create a new build definition "CI Build"
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Configure your build definition to build the ASP.NET Core website. Choose Hosted VS 2017 as agent or add make sure your agent has the correct .NET SDK installed. (2.0.0 should work!)
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Modify your build definiton for CI - so set the trigger to build with every new push to the master branch
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Clone your build definition, call the clone "PR Build" and set the trigger to Pull Request (Branch Policies)
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Modify your source code locally, push the code, trigger a PR and follow the Pipeline
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Add a Build Step to Copy the ARM-Templates to make them accessible for the release definitions. Use "Publish Build Artifacts" task.
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Add a Build Step to copy the required test files. See hint file for details.
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Bonus Goals
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Create a private build agent (e.g. on your local machine or any VM) and spin it up so it is connected to your account. (You can find the required agent application in your VSTS portal for download).
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Modify your CI build to create a work item on failure.
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DevOps Challenge #5 - Release Management
In this challenge, you will release your application to Azure. If you need help check out the Release Management Hints.
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Create a release definition which will be triggered automatically after a successful build of "CI build". Hint: Use the Azure Resource Group Deployment Task
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Add a task to deploy the required infrastructure on Azure. Use the ARM Template provided in /env/Templates/FullEnvironmentSetupMerged.json and also use the provided parameters file in the same folder. Overwrite the parameters as required. Make sure you're using globally unique values by e.g. adding a random string at the end. Otherwise you might run into collisions. (See hints.)
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Modify your release definition to deploy your application. Use task "Azure Deploy App Service". Use your the name of your website as App Service Name. Pick to deploy to slot "Dev". Hint: You can use variables for the values provided. Typically you'd work with values provided by a dropdown list. In our case those values might not exisit yet, so we have to provide them manually.
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Modify your code locally, push the code and watch the pipeline.
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Create another release environment which deploys to another deployment slot.
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Bonus Goals
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Add a 3rd deployment slot called "Test" by modifiying your ARM template accordingly.
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DevOps Challenge #6 - Automated Testing
In this challenge, you will integrate automated tests into your application.
If you need help check out the Auto Test Hints.
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Create an automated performance test for the start page of your website which will be executed after deploying to environment "Dev". Configure it to simulate 100 users over 2 minutes. Configure it to fail if response times are larger then 5 seconds. Hint: There's a task which will help you.
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Create a (multi-step) cloud based load test for your website which will be executed after release to test environment.Use the loadtest provided.
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Bonus Goals
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Visual Studio users only: Use VS to record a new webtest and use it during release.
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DevOps Challenge #7 - Application Monitoring
In this challenge, you will set up monitoring for your application in Azure.
If you need help check out the Application Monitoring Hints.
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Understanding Application Insights: Find the Application Insights (AI) component(s) for your app in Azure portal. Search for the different instances of AI for your slots. Check the default charts and take a look at how to create own charts. Search for the Application ID and the instrumentation key which "wire up" your application with correspondig telemetry services. Try to understand how the wiring works under the hood for the different slots.
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Deployment Markers: You want to be able to see application releases in your AI charts. Add Release Annotations by adding a new task in your release definition for every environment.
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What could you do to avoid doing modifications like this for every environment?
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What is the problem with specifying an AppID in the task? How could you solve this problem? (You don't have to solve it, but think about how to solve it.)
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Custom Server Telemetry: Collect a custom telemetry event in your webpage for whenever someone triggers a product search. Collect the time it takes to run the search. Hint: ApplicationInsights is already pre-wired. All you have to do ist specify the line of code in SearchController.cs. You can check the OrdersController.cs file which is already tracing for code snippets. See hint file for details.
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Custom Client Telemetry: Instrument your client Web Pages. Add a code snippet to track usage of the carousel found on the home page. Being responsible for the website you might want to know: Are customers actually using the option to flip through offerings? Hint: Application Insights is already pre-wired. All you have to do is to specify the logging with a small Java Script snippet. You can check /Views/ShoppingCart/Index.cshtml for an analog procedure or check the hints file.
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View AI logs & analytics: Now re-deploy your application and use it to see if data is being logged. View the Azure portal to find the logs in the correspoding AI component. You don't have to deploy to every slot for this exercise. In your AI portal check the analytics button to run some SQL-like queries.
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Custom Charts Create charts in the metrics explorer to display your new metrics.
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Availability Test: Add an Availability test in Azure Portal from 5 locations in a 5 min frequency with dependencies; Match content for a string found in your startpage. Set alerts to send you an email. Provoke an error.
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Work Item Creation: Find the place to create a work item from AI in Azure Portal. Configure the settings to create a Work Item in your VSTS project.
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Dashboard Adjust your VSTS dashboard to show AI metrics.
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Bonus Goals
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Solve the problem with the specified AppId in the Release Annotation task.
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DevOps Challenge 8 - Containers
In this challenge, you will create a pipeline for container deployment. If you need help check out the Container Hints. If you don't want to wait so long for the build to complete you can use this Project instead https://github.com/tclasenOrange/DevOpsHackSimpleProject. You can then deploy a "WebApp for Containers" and deploy your Container to it. Also you can then easily setup CD through the Azure Portal if your Azure Container Registry supports Web Hooks.
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"Dockerize your application" by creating a Dockerfile for it. You don't have to have Docker installed to create a Dockerfile. In doubt, check the hints file.
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In Azure Portal create an Azure Container Registry.
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Create a new build definition in VSTS for your application which creates a container image.
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Extend your pipeline to automatically deploy your image into your container registry.
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If you have Docker installed, run the image locally and pull it from your Azure Registry.
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Running a container locally is rather boring. Run your container image as an Azure Container Instance manually on a managed container platform.
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DevOps Challenge 9 - Start in the cloud
In this challenge you will set up an end to end devops pipeline starting in the Azure Portal. Azure Portal can do a lot of the steps we did so far on it's own.
If you need help check out the Azure Portal Deployment Hints.
Achievements
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In Azure Portal create a new Azure Web App.
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Connect it to VSTS and configure it to configure a pipeline for you.