Teamcity Online training Introduction

TeamCity is a very popular, mature and feature-rich toolset which enables us to build very sophisticated automated build pipelines very quickly. It has extensive community support which has augmented the core functionality of TeamCity by building and sharing hundreds of very useful plugins. Implementing continuous integration with TeamCity can help us immensely in reducing the risk within our software development lifecycle. 

Prerequisites for Teamcity online training:

• Access to a physical or virtual machine to install the required software
• Basic information about software development processes
• Desire to learn something new and continuous improvement

Teamcity Online training Course Content

1. INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to Continuous Integration
• Introduction to TeamCity
• TeamCity and its competitors
• Summary

2. INSTALLATION

• Installing on Windows
• Installation on Mac OS X
• Installation on Linux
• Summary

3. GETTING YOUR CI UP AND RUNNING

• Introducing version control systems
• Setting up CI
• Adding build configurations
• Build chains
• Fine-tuning our setup
• Summary

4. TEAMCITY FOR JAVA PROJECTS

• Using Ant with TeamCity
• Using Maven with TeamCity
• Using Gradle with TeamCity
• Introducing database migration tools
• Summary

5. TEAMCITY FOR .NET PROJECTS

• Getting started with NAnt on TeamCity
• Building with MSBuild
• NuGet and TeamCity
• Introducing PowerShell
• Database migrations with .NET
• Summary

6. TEAMCITY FOR RUBY PROJECTS

• Getting started with Rails
• Summary

7. TEAMCITY FOR MOBILE AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

• CI for Android projects
• Building iOS projects on TeamCity
• Installing TeamCity plugins
• Summary

8. INTEGRATION WITH OTHER TOOLS

• IDE integrations
• GitHub integrations
• Build monitors
• Notifications
• Summary

9. TEAMCITY FOR A MEMBER OF THE TEAM

• Managing projects of interest
• Navigating across projects
• Investigating investigations
• TeamCity universal search
• Actions on build configurations
• Summary

10. TAKING IT A LEVEL UP

• Build configuration templates
• Going meta with Meta-Runners
• Build result actions
• Build history cleanup
• Configuring build priorities
• Interacting with TeamCity from build scripts
• Summary

11. BEYOND CI – CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

• What is Continuous Delivery?
• Why Continuous Delivery?
• The deployment pipeline
• Implementing the deployment pipeline in TeamCity
• Summary

12. MAKING IT PRODUCTION READY

• Using TeamCity with an external database
• Backup and restore
• Handling upgrades
• Monitoring resource usage, performance, and logs
• Tweaking the TeamCity JVM
• Summary