Merge pull request #54326 from Orin-Thomas/orthomas-20Apr26a

Technical Review & Freshness Update

Author: denrea

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-deployment/1-introduction.yml

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-### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
-uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.1-introduction
-title: "Introduction"
-metadata:
-  title: "Introduction"
-  description: "Introduction"
-  ms.date: 06/07/2024
-  author: dnblankedelman
-  ms.author: dnb
-  ms.topic: unit
-  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
-  ms.contributors: dnb-06092020
-durationInMinutes: 1
-content: |
-  [!include[](includes/1-introduction.md)]
-
+### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
+uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.1-introduction
+title: "Introduction"
+metadata:
+  title: "Introduction"
+  description: "Introduction"
+  ms.date: 04/17/2026
+  author: dnblankedelman
+  ms.author: dnb
+  ms.topic: unit
+  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
+  ms.contributors: orthomas-04172026
+durationInMinutes: 1
+content: |
+  [!include[](includes/1-introduction.md)]
+

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-deployment/2-definition.yml

@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
-### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
-uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.2-definition
-title: "What is software deployment?"
-metadata:
-  title: "What is software deployment?"
-  description: "What is software deployment?"
-  ms.date: 06/07/2024
-  author: dnblankedelman
-  ms.author: dnb
-  ms.topic: unit
-  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
-  ms.contributors: dnb-06092020
-durationInMinutes: 3
-content: |
-  [!include[](includes/2-definition.md)]
-quiz:
-  title: Check your knowledge
-  questions:
-
-  - content: 'What is one of the characteristics of the “epic deployment?”'
-    choices:
-    - content: "It's fast."
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Epic deployments usually take a considerable amount of time because of their size.'
-    - content: "It's repeatable."
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Because they're done so infrequently, there's only a small amount of effort put into repeatability."
-    - content: "It's complex."
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "Because of the size and infrequency, they're often complex."
-
+### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
+uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.2-definition
+title: "What is software deployment?"
+metadata:
+  title: "What is software deployment?"
+  description: "What is software deployment?"
+  ms.date: 04/17/2026
+  author: dnblankedelman
+  ms.author: dnb
+  ms.topic: unit
+  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
+  ms.contributors: orthomas-04172026
+durationInMinutes: 3
+content: |
+  [!include[](includes/2-definition.md)]
+quiz:
+  title: Check your knowledge
+  questions:
+
+  - content: "What is one of the characteristics of the \"epic deployment?\""
+    choices:
+    - content: "It's fast."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Epic deployments usually take a considerable amount of time because of their size."
+    - content: "It's repeatable."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Because they're done so infrequently, there's only a small amount of effort put into repeatability."
+    - content: "It's complex."
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Because of the size and infrequency, they're often complex."
+

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-deployment/3-continuous.yml

@@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
-### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
-uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.3-continuous
-title: "The continuous delivery deployment model"
-metadata:
-  title: "The continuous delivery deployment model"
-  description: "The continuous delivery deployment model"
-  ms.date: 06/07/2024
-  author: dnblankedelman
-  ms.author: dnb
-  ms.topic: unit
-  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
-  ms.contributors: dnb-06092020
-durationInMinutes: 4
-content: |
-  [!include[](includes/3-continuous.md)]
-quiz:
-  title: Check your knowledge
-  questions:
-
-  - content: 'Deploying smaller, focused changes frequently is a characteristic of which of the following?'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Continuous delivery'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct, this is an important part of continuous delivery.'
-    - content: 'Source code version control'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Source code version control does not require smaller, focused changes frequently.'
-    - content: 'Test and staging environments'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: "Just having test or staging environments doesn't require smaller, focused changes frequently."
-
-  - content: 'Which has proven to be true of high-performing DevOps companies?'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'They have a 7x higher change failure rate.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'They have a 7x _lower_ change failure rate.'
-    - content: 'They have 2x faster incident recovery time'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'They have _2,604x_ faster incident recovery time.'
-    - content: 'They have 208x more frequent deployments'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct.'
-
-  - content: 'Which of these options is _not_ a goal continuous delivery can help you reach?'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Reducing the stress involved with deploying services.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Continuous delivery can help with this goal.'
-    - content: 'Reducing the time between having an idea and delivering useable software.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Continuous delivery can help with this goal.'
-    - content: 'Reducing the compliance requirements for your software.'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: "Correct. Continuous delivery could potentially help you meet your requirements in some circumstances, but it won't reduce them."
-
+### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
+uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.3-continuous
+title: "The continuous delivery deployment model"
+metadata:
+  title: "The continuous delivery deployment model"
+  description: "The continuous delivery deployment model"
+  ms.date: 04/17/2026
+  author: dnblankedelman
+  ms.author: dnb
+  ms.topic: unit
+  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
+  ms.contributors: orthomas-04172026
+durationInMinutes: 4
+content: |
+  [!include[](includes/3-continuous.md)]
+quiz:
+  title: Check your knowledge
+  questions:
+
+  - content: "Deploying smaller, focused changes frequently is a characteristic of which of the following?"
+    choices:
+    - content: "Continuous delivery"
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct, this is an important part of continuous delivery."
+    - content: "Source code version control"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Source code version control doesn't require smaller, focused changes frequently."
+    - content: "Test and staging environments"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Just having test or staging environments doesn't require smaller, focused changes frequently."
+
+  - content: "According to DORA research, which of the following is consistently true of higher-performing software delivery organizations?"
+    choices:
+    - content: "They have a higher change fail rate."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Higher-performing teams have a substantially _lower_ change fail rate."
+    - content: "They take longer to recover from failed deployments."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Higher-performing teams recover from failed deployments significantly _faster_."
+    - content: "They deploy to production far more frequently and with shorter lead times."
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct. Higher-performing teams consistently show higher deployment frequency and shorter lead time from commit to production."
+
+  - content: "Which of these options is _not_ a goal continuous delivery can help you reach?"
+    choices:
+    - content: "Reducing the stress involved with deploying services."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Continuous delivery can help with this goal."
+    - content: "Reducing the time between having an idea and delivering usable software."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Continuous delivery can help with this goal."
+    - content: "Reducing the compliance requirements for your software."
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct. Continuous delivery could potentially help you meet your requirements in some circumstances, but it won't reduce them."
+

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-deployment/4-pipelines.yml

@@ -1,49 +1,49 @@
-### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
-uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.4-pipelines
-title: "Test automation and the delivery pipeline"
-metadata:
-  title: "Test automation and the delivery pipeline"
-  description: "Test automation and the delivery pipeline"
-  ms.date: 06/07/2024
-  author: dnblankedelman
-  ms.author: dnb
-  ms.topic: unit
-  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
-  ms.contributors: dnb-06092020
-durationInMinutes: 5
-content: |
-  [!include[](includes/4-pipelines.md)]
-quiz:
-  title: Check your knowledge
-  questions:
-
-  - content: 'Commit, test, scan, and build are typical steps in which of these things?'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Unit test'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'These are typical steps in a continuous delivery pipeline.'
-    - content: 'Epic deployment'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'These are typical steps in a continuous delivery pipeline.'
-    - content: 'Continuous delivery pipeline'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct.'
-    - content: 'Feature flag'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'These are typical steps in a continuous delivery pipeline.'
-
-  - content: 'Environment traceability allows us to do which of these things?'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance.'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct.'
-    - content: 'Find out which environment variables were active during a build.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Environment traceability allows us to correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance.'
-    - content: 'Determine the origin of code in a source control system'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Environment traceability allows us to correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance.'
-    - content: 'Find the staging environment used for testing the code.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Environment traceability allows us to correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance.'
-
+### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
+uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.4-pipelines
+title: "Test automation and the delivery pipeline"
+metadata:
+  title: "Test automation and the delivery pipeline"
+  description: "Test automation and the delivery pipeline"
+  ms.date: 04/17/2026
+  author: dnblankedelman
+  ms.author: dnb
+  ms.topic: unit
+  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
+  ms.contributors: orthomas-04172026
+durationInMinutes: 5
+content: |
+  [!include[](includes/4-pipelines.md)]
+quiz:
+  title: Check your knowledge
+  questions:
+
+  - content: "Commit, test, scan, and build are typical steps in which of these things?"
+    choices:
+    - content: "Unit test"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "These are typical steps in a continuous delivery pipeline."
+    - content: "Epic deployment"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "These are typical steps in a continuous delivery pipeline."
+    - content: "Continuous delivery pipeline"
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct."
+    - content: "Feature flag"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "These are typical steps in a continuous delivery pipeline."
+
+  - content: "Environment traceability allows us to do which of these things?"
+    choices:
+    - content: "Correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance."
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct."
+    - content: "Find out which environment variables were active during a build."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Environment traceability allows us to correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance."
+    - content: "Determine the origin of code in a source control system"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Environment traceability allows us to correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance."
+    - content: "Find the staging environment used for testing the code."
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "Environment traceability allows us to correlate what is running in production with a specific build instance."
+

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-deployment/5-strategies.yml

@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@
-### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
-uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.5-strategies
-title: "Deployment strategies"
-metadata:
-  title: "Deployment strategies"
-  description: "Deployment strategies"
-  ms.date: 06/07/2024
-  author: dnblankedelman
-  ms.author: dnb
-  ms.topic: unit
-  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
-  ms.contributors: dnb-06092020
-durationInMinutes: 4
-content: |
-  [!include[](includes/5-strategies.md)]
-quiz:
-  title: Check your knowledge
-  questions:
-
-  - content: 'A deployment strategy that involves making a duplicate of the production environment, upgrading that environment, and then cutting completely over to the duplicate is:'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Blue-green deployment'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct.'
-    - content: 'Rolling deployment'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'A rolling deployment upgrades the environment in place gradually.'
-    - content: 'Canary deployment'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'A canary deployment rolls out the upgrade to a subset of users or the production traffic and increases the percentage over time, monitoring the results each step of the way.'
-      
-  - content: 'A deployment strategy that involves rolling out the upgrade to a subset of users or the production traffic and increases the percentage over time is:'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Blue-green deployment'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'This describes a canary deployment.'
-    - content: 'Rolling deployment'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'This describes a canary deployment.'
-    - content: 'Canary deployment'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct.'
-
+### YamlMime:ModuleUnit
+uid: learn.improve-reliability-deployment.5-strategies
+title: "Deployment strategies"
+metadata:
+  title: "Deployment strategies"
+  description: "Deployment strategies"
+  ms.date: 04/17/2026
+  author: dnblankedelman
+  ms.author: dnb
+  ms.topic: unit
+  ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
+  ms.contributors: orthomas-04172026
+durationInMinutes: 4
+content: |
+  [!include[](includes/5-strategies.md)]
+quiz:
+  title: Check your knowledge
+  questions:
+
+  - content: "A deployment strategy that involves making a duplicate of the production environment, upgrading that environment, and then cutting completely over to the duplicate is:"
+    choices:
+    - content: "Blue-green deployment"
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct."
+    - content: "Rolling deployment"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "A rolling deployment upgrades the environment in place gradually."
+    - content: "Canary deployment"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "A canary deployment rolls out the upgrade to a subset of users or the production traffic and increases the percentage over time, monitoring the results each step of the way."
+      
+  - content: "A deployment strategy that involves rolling out the upgrade to a subset of users or the production traffic and increases the percentage over time is:"
+    choices:
+    - content: "Blue-green deployment"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "This describes a canary deployment."
+    - content: "Rolling deployment"
+      isCorrect: false
+      explanation: "This describes a canary deployment."
+    - content: "Canary deployment"
+      isCorrect: true
+      explanation: "Correct."
+