TeamCity Training teaches all that is required how to set up a build server for CI and create build scripts using MSBuild to manage the overall build process. It is a powerful continuous integration that can be excelled out of the box.

TeamCity is a Java-based build management and continuous integration server from JetBrains. Continuous Integration is a fundamental pillar of running an Agile project. Knowing whether the latest checkins make or break the project and being able to fix mistakes quickly is important to reduce costs and avoid problems in the long run. In addition, with the recent popularity of continuous delivery and continuous deployment, it is becoming even more common to ship fixes and features to customers more quickly. Different aspects of a build pipeline are explored, including code compilation, testing, coverage, static code analysis, packaging, and deployment. This course is appropriate for developers new to the practice of continuous integration.

TeamCity Training Overview
Our course curriculum is designed with a view to enable trainees with the sufficient knowledge on the fundamentals of TeamCity. In the beginning, learn about Installing and running TeamCity. In further sections, have a brief overview of how TeamCity is managed for Java projects, .NET projects, Ruby projects and other methodologies. In the final module, learn to make master to make TeamCity production ready.

TeamCity Training Curriculum
curriculum_moduleIntroduction

1. Introduction to Continuous Integration

Practices
Benefits
Continuous deployment and Continuous Delivery
The build pipeline

2. Introduction to TeamCity

Licensing
Features

First-class support for various technologies
Lots of plugins
REST API
Comprehensive VCS support
A nice dashboard UI and build history
Ease of setup and comprehensive documentation
Build pipeline/chains
Agents and build grids
IDE integrations

3. TeamCity and its competitors

Jenkins
ThoughtWorks’ Go

4. Summary

curriculum_moduleInstallation

1. Installing on Windows

Installing the server and the default agent
Installing additional agents

2. Installation on Mac OS X

Running the TeamCity server and the default agent
Setting up the TeamCity server as a daemon
Installing additional agents

3. Installation on Linux

Running the server and the default agent
Running the TeamCity server as a daemon
Installing additional agents

4. Summary

curriculum_moduleGetting Your CI Up and Running

1. Introducing version control systems

Centralized versus distributed VCSs
VCSs and CI
VCS used in this book

2. Setting up CI

1. The sample project

2. Creating a project in TeamCity

Subprojects

3. Adding build configurations

VCS roots and VCS settings
Introducing the build steps
Running our first build
Build failure conditions
Triggering the build on VCS changes

4. Build chains

1. Deploying to Heroku

2. Adding functional tests

Parameters and build parameters

3. Setting up the build chain

Snapshot dependencies
The Finish build trigger
The Build chain view

5. Fine-tuning our setup

1. Adding coverage and unit test reports

Publishing reports as artifacts
XML report processing
Report tabs
Build and project statistics
Shared resources
Agent Requirements

3. Summary

curriculum_moduleTeamCity for Java Projects

1. Using Ant with TeamCity

Installing Ant
Building with Ant build files
Building with Ant in a build configuration
Adding some unit tests
Setting up code coverage
Build scripts versus TeamCity features
System properties and Ant

2. Using Maven with TeamCity

Installing Maven
Creating a Maven project
Introducing the Project Object Model (POM)
Building the project
Using Maven in a build configuration
Setting version number
Setting up code coverage for our build
Maven on TeamCity, beyond the build runner

Creating a Maven build configuration
Global Maven settings file
Setting up Maven-based triggers

3. Using Gradle with TeamCity

Installing Gradle
Building with Gradle on TeamCity

4. Introducing database migration tools

5. Summary

curriculum_moduleTeamCity for .NET Projects

1. Getting started with NAnt on TeamCity

Installing NAnt
Building NAnt with NAnt
Building on TeamCity
Adding NUnit report processing
Configuring agent requirements

2. Building with MSBuild

Installing MSBuild
Starting an MSBuild project
Building with MSBuild on TeamCity
Adding an NUnit build runner
Running NUnit tests using NUnit task
Running NUnit tests using the task provided by TeamCity
Configuring code coverage with MSBuild

3. NuGet and TeamCity

Installing the NuGet command-line client
Installing NuGet.exe on TeamCity agents
TeamCity as a NuGet server
NuGet-based build runners
NuGet dependency trigger

4. Introducing PowerShell

PowerShell-based build tools
PowerShell build runner in TeamCity

5. Database migrations with .NET

6. Summary

curriculum_moduleTeamCity for Ruby Projects

1. Getting started with Rails

Managing Ruby versions
Introducing Bundler
Installing Rails using Bundler
Introducing Rake
Setting up the build on TeamCity
Setting up Ruby interpreter
Running Capybara- and Selenium-based feature tests

2. Summary

curriculum_moduleTeamCity for Mobile and Other Technologies

1. CI for Android projects

Generating the APK
Running Calabash tests

2. Building iOS projects on TeamCity

3. Installing TeamCity plugins

Installing the Python runner plugin
Building with the Python build runner
Introduction to TeamCity.Node plugin

4. Summary

curriculum_moduleIntegration with Other Tools

1. IDE integrations

IntelliJ platform IDEs integration
Installing the plugin
Configuring notifications
Managing projects from the IDE
Opening files and patches in IDE
Remote Run
Visual Studio integrations

2. GitHub integrations

GitHub webhooks and services
Using the TeamCity.GitHub plugin
Support for pull requests
Integrating with GitHub issue tracker

3. Build monitors

Team Piazza
Project Monitor
Build lights

4. Notifications

5. Summary

curriculum_moduleTeamCity for a Member of the Team

1. Managing projects of interest

Hiding projects
Hiding build configurations

2. Navigating across projects

3. Investigating investigations

Assigning investigations
Viewing active investigations
Managing current and muted problems

4. TeamCity universal search

5. Actions on build configurations

Pausing triggers in a build configuration
Checking for pending changes
Enforcing clean checkout

6. Summary

curriculum_moduleTaking It a Level Up

1. Build configuration templates

Creating templates from scratch
Creating build configurations from the template
Creating templates from existing build configurations

2. Going meta with Meta-Runners

Using Meta-Runners

3. Build result actions

Commenting on build results
Tagging build results
Pinning build results
Promoting builds
Marking the build as successful or failed
Removing builds

4. Build history cleanup

Cleanup rules
Archiving projects

5. Configuring build priorities

6. Interacting with TeamCity from build scripts

Service messages
Creating teamcity-info.xml

7. Summary

curriculum_moduleBeyond CI – Continuous Delivery

1. What is Continuous Delivery?

2. Why Continuous Delivery?

3. The deployment pipeline

4. Implementing the deployment pipeline in TeamCity

Publishing and consuming artifacts
Build chain for CI
Deploying to environments
Environments as gates
Identifying the build that is deployed in an environment
Deploying any version to an environment
Limiting deployment permissions to certain users
Passing sensitive information during deployment
Feature branching and feature toggling

5. Summary

curriculum_moduleMaking It Production Ready

1. Using TeamCity with an external database

Configuring PostgreSQL as an external database
Migrating from one database to another

2. Backup and restore

Taking backups from the server UI
Backing up and restoring data using the maintainDB tool
A manual backup

3. Handling upgrades

Updating a server installed via an archive
Updating TeamCity using the Windows installer
Updating the agents

4. Monitoring resource usage, performance, and logs

Disk space usage
TeamCity server diagnostics

5. Tweaking the TeamCity JVM

6. Summary