Automate Azure Load Testing by using GitHub Actions – Applied Skills Workshop

Overview

This course equips participants with the skills to automate Azure Load Testing using GitHub Actions. It covers designing GitHub workflows, integrating them with Azure, and executing performance tests to simulate and enhance application resilience.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of GitHub workflows.
• Familiarity with Azure resource management.
• Target audience
• DevOps engineers.
• Cloud architects.
• Application developers.

Objectives

• Design and implement GitHub Actions workflows.
• Configure Azure Load Testing for automated test scenarios.
• Analyse application performance under varying loads.

Outline

Implement GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a powerful CI/CD platform that allows developers to automate their software development workflows. Learn how GitHub actions are implemented, how workflow files are structured, and how to control workflow execution.

• Introduction
• Explore GitHub Actions
• Examine a workflow file
• Implement variables and scripts in a workflow
• Explore contexts and expressions in GitHub
• Manage secrets in GitHub
• Exercise – Create a workflow that validates code on a pull request
• Knowledge check
• Summary

Implement GitHub Actions for Azure

Learn how to use GitHub Actions for Azure in your workflows and configure Azure with the necessary security principals to automate software development workflows between GitHub and Azure.

• Introduction
• Explore GitHub Actions for Azure
• Discover authentication options for GitHub Actions for Azure
• Exercise – Use GitHub Actions for Azure to publish a web app to Azure App Service
• Knowledge check
• Summary

Implement Azure Load Testing

Learn how to optimize application performance by simulating real-world loads with Azure Load Testing service. Learn how to automate load testing with GitHub Actions to ensure consistent application performance and scalability.

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Load Testing
• Create and manage tests in Azure Load Testing
• Create a load test YAML configuration file
• Define fail criteria and AutoStop
• Configure secrets and environment variables
• Exercise – Automate Azure load testing using GitHub Actions
• Knowledge check
• Summary