Episode

FastTrack for Azure Season 1 Ep06: Supercharge your DevOps skills with Azure Load Testing

with Mauro Contreras, Chris Ayers, Xuhong Liu

Learn Live

Explore how to deliver with confidence and scale using DevOps practices and Microsoft's new Load Testing service.

Learning objectives

  • Understand the place of testing in a DevOps world
  • Review the typical problems with load testing
  • Overview of Azure Load Testing service
  • Understand the benefits of Azure Load Testing
  • Learn how to create and reutilize tests
  • Learn how to integrate continuous Load Testing on GitHub Actions

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Welcome and Introduction
  • 02:47 - Learning Objectives
  • 04:14 - Why Quality Assurance matters in a DevOps world
  • 07:23 - Traditional Load Testing issues on organizations
  • 15:10 - Azure Load Testing overview
  • 28:54 - Demo overview
  • 33:58 - Quickstart with Azure Load Testing
  • 40:43 - Running JMeter scripts
  • 52:56 - Identify performance issues
  • 01:17:07 - IaC deployments with Bicep and GH Actions
  • 01:22:45 - Closing out & Next session

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Intermediate
DevOps Engineer
Developer
Solution Architect
GitHub
Visual Studio Code
Azure Load Testing
Azure App Service
Azure Functions
Azure API Management