AZ-2006: Automate Azure Load Testing by using GitHub Actions

AZ-2006 Course: Automate Azure Load Testing by using GitHub Actions

To obtain this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, students must demonstrate the ability to automate Azure load testing using GitHub Actions .

This course will teach you how to implement GitHub Actions and configure Azure Load Testing to automate test application deployments.

The scenario in this experience represents real-world challenges faced by developers and DevOps professionals.

Level: Intermediate - Role: Developer - Product: GitHub

Course aimed at

• Software developers who work with GitHub and deploy applications on Azure.
• DevOps engineers interested in integrating load testing into their CI/CD pipelines.
  Cloud solution architects seeking to ensure the scalability of their applications.
  
• QA and performance testing teams that want to automate load validation in production or staging environments

Objectives of the AZ-2006 training - GitHub Actions

• Implement GitHub Actions: Learn how to create and structure workflow files to automate development and testing processes
• Configure GitHub Actions for Azure: Integrate GitHub with Azure by configuring secure identities and appropriate permissions to automate deployments and testing
• Create and run load tests with Azure Load Testing: Simulate real-world loads on applications to evaluate their performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Automate load testing in deployments: Configure workflows that automatically run tests after each deployment, ensuring continuous software quality.
• Optimize application performance: Analyze test results to identify bottlenecks and apply improvements to the architecture or code.

Course content AZ-2006: Automating Azure load testing using GitHub Actions

Module 1: Implementing GitHub Actions

• Introduction
  
• Exploring GitHub shares
  
• Examining a workflow file
  
• Implementing variables and scripts in a workflow
  
• Exploring contexts and expressions on GitHub
  
• Managing secrets on GitHub
  
• Exercise: Create a workflow that validates code in a pull request

Module 2: Implementing GitHub Actions for Azure

• Introduction
  
• Exploring GitHub Actions for Azure
  
• Detecting authentication options for GitHub Actions for Azure
  
• Exercise: Using GitHub Actions for Azure to publish a web application to Azure App Service

Module 3: Azure Load Testing Implementation

• Introduction
  
• Azure Load Testing from Explore
  
• Creating and managing tests in Azure Load Testing
  
• Creating a load test YAML configuration file
  
• Definition of error criteria and automatic shutdown
  
• Configuring secrets and environment variables
  
• Exercise: Automating Azure load testing using GitHub Actions

Prerequisites

It is recommended to have:

• Experience with GitHub and knowledge of pull requests, code merges, and other repository management procedures.
  
• Experience in creating resources in Azure.

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
• Labs: English / Spanish

Microsoft Applied Skills

This course is part of the Microsoft Applied Skills Credentials.

To earn this Microsoft applied skills credential, students must demonstrate the ability to protect resources using Azure virtual network solutions.

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