Cloud Release Management: Managing Productive Release


Overview/Description
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Expertise Level


Overview/Description

Release Management is much bigger than just source control and CI/CD. As an aspiring DevOps technical support engineer, it's critical to recognize the importance and function of release management and its application in the cloud.

In this course, you'll explore the release management cycle and define key release management terms, metrics, and KPIs. You'll distinguish release management implementation with and without cloud and recognize best practices for designing release management processes.

Next, you'll outline the DevOps lifecycle used to define release management pipelines. You'll then compare the differences between deployment and release and recognize the impact of the release management process on CI/CD. Finally, you'll explore application release automation and identify application release automation solutions for configuring an automated release process.



Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Cloud Release Management: Managing Productive Release

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • outline the history of release management along with the key terms used in release management
  • recognize the cycle of release management along with the critical challenges release management can help address
  • list primary release management metrics and KPIs and identify some common myths and misconceptions about release management
  • describe the foundational steps release engineers need to follow to streamline release management
  • outline the implementation of release management before the advent of cloud and recognize the relationship between release management and operations
  • define the concept of release management in the cloud and specify the conventional release management processes adopted in the cloud
  • identify how best to define release management processes that enable and improve agility
  • outline the DevOps lifecycle that applies fundamental DevOps principles and is used to design a release management pipeline
  • Differentiate between deployment and release and distinguish the deployment and release strategies adopted for productive release management
  • recognize the impact of the release management process on continuous integration and the continuous delivery process
  • define the concept of application release automation and identify how it relates to DevOps and deployment automation
  • list the prominent application release automation solutions DevOps practitioners can use to configure an automated release process
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course

    • Course Number:
    it_dprmnfdj_01_enus

    Expertise Level
    Intermediate