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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise,...

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$2,495 USD
Duration 4 days
Course Code AZ-400T00
Available Formats Classroom, Virtual

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Overview

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms

Audience Profile

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Skills Gained

  • Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
  • Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
  • Create a team and agile organizational structure
  • Design a tool integration strategy
  • Design a license management strategy (e.g., Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
  • Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
  • Design an authentication and access strategy
  • Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
  • Describe the benefits of using Source Control
  • Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
  • Migrate from TFVC to Git
  • Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
  • Build organizational knowledge on code quality
  • Explain how to structure Git repos
  • Describe Git branching workflows
  • Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
  • Leverage Git hooks for automation
  • Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
  • Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
  • Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
  • Explain why continuous integration matters
  • Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
  • Define Site Reliability Engineering
  • Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
  • Design processes to automate application analytics
  • Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
  • Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
  • Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
  • Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
  • Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
  • Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
  • Manage organizational security and compliance policies
  • Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
  • Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings

Prerequisites

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:

  • Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
  • Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.
  • Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
  • If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following resources:
  • Free online: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/)
  • Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/courses/az-900t00)
  • If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking:
  • Free online: Prerequisites for Azure Administrators (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/az-104-administrator-prerequisites/)
  • Instructor-led course: AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/courses/az-104t00)
  • If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking:
  • Free online: Create serverless applications (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/create-serverless-applications/)
  • Instructor-led course: AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/courses/az-204t00

Course Details

Outline

  • Introduction to DevOps
    • What is DevOps?
    • Explore the DevOps journey
    • Identify transformation teams
    • Define organization structure for agile practices
    • Explore shared goals and define timelines
    • What is Azure DevOps?
    • What is GitHub?
    • Design a license management strategy
    • What is source control?
    • Describe working with Git locally
    • Introduction to Azure Repos
    • Introduction to GitHub
    • Module assessment
  • Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
    • Introduction to GitHub Projects and Project boards
    • Introduction to Azure Boards
    • Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps
    • Link GitHub to Azure Boards
    • Configure GitHub Projects
    • Manage work with GitHub Project boards
    • Customize Project views
    • Collaborate using team discussions
    • Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles
    • Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability
    • Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
    • Module assessment
  • Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
    • Explore branch workflow types
    • Explore feature branch workflow
    • Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
    • Explore GitHub flow
    • Explore fork workflow
    • Implement branch merging restrictions
    • Version Control with Git in Azure Repos
    • Module assessment
  • Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
    • Collaborate with pull requests
    • Exercise Azure Repos collaborating with pull requests
    • Module assessment
  • Explore Git hooks
    • Introduction to Git hooks
    • Implement Git hooks
    • Module assessment
  • Plan foster inner source
    • Explore foster inner source
    • Implement the fork workflow
    • Describe inner source with forks
    • Module assessment
  • Manage and configure repositories
    • Work with large repositories
    • Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
    • Implement a change log
    • Implement Scalar and cross repo when cross repo sharing
    • Recover specific data by using Git commands
    • Purge repository data
    • Manage releases with GitHub Repos
    • Automate release notes with GitHub
    • Create API documentation
    • Implement automation of Git history documentation
    • Configure source control repository permissions using GitHub
    • Configure GitHub tags to organize repositories
    • Module assessment
  • Identify technical debt
    • Examine code quality
    • Examine complexity and quality metrics
    • Introduction to technical debt
    • Measure and manage technical debt
    • Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
    • Integrate other code quality tools
    • Plan effective code reviews
    • Module assessment
  • Explore Azure Pipelines
    • Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
    • Describe Azure Pipelines
    • Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
    • Module assessment
  • Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
    • Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
    • Explore job types
    • Introduction to agent pools
    • Explore predefined agent pool
    • Understand typical situations for agent pools
    • Communicate with Azure Pipelines
    • Communicate to deploy to target servers
    • Examine other considerations
    • Describe security of agent pools
    • Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles
    • Module assessment
  • Describe pipelines and concurrency
    • Understand parallel jobs
    • Estimate parallel jobs
    • Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
    • Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
    • Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
    • Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
    • Module assessment
  • Design and implement a pipeline strategy
    • Configure agent demands
    • Explore multi-configuration and multi-agent
    • Integrate GitHub repos and Azure Pipelines
    • Design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy
    • Implement code coverage and show in the pipeline
    • Implement multi-job builds
    • Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
    • Module assessment
  • Integrate with Azure Pipelines
    • Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
    • Understand the pipeline structure
    • Detail templates
    • Explore YAML resources
    • Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
    • Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines
    • Module assessment
  • Introduction to GitHub Actions
    • What are actions?
    • Explore Actions flow
    • Understand Workflows
    • Describe standard workflow syntax elements
    • Explore Events
    • Explore Jobs
    • Explore Runners
    • Examine release and test an action
    • Module assessment
  • Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
    • Describe continuous integration with actions
    • Examine environment variables
    • Share artifacts between jobs
    • Examine Workflow badges
    • Describe best practices for creating actions
    • Mark releases with Git tags
    • Create encrypted secrets
    • Use secrets in a workflow
    • Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD
    • Module assessment
  • Design a container build strategy
    • Examine structure of containers
    • Work with Docker containers
    • Understand Dockerfile core concepts
    • Examine multi-stage dockerfiles
    • Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
    • Explore Azure container-related services
    • Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
    • Module assessment
  • Create a release pipeline
    • Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
    • Explore release pipelines
    • Explore artifact sources
    • Choose the appropriate artifact source
    • Examine considerations for deployment to stages
    • Explore build and release tasks
    • Explore custom build and release tasks
    • Explore release jobs
    • Understand database deployment task
    • Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
    • Module assessment
  • Explore release recommendations
    • Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
    • Explore release approvals
    • Explore release gates
    • Use release gates to protect quality
    • Explore GitOps release strategy and recommendations
    • Control Deployments using Release Gates
    • Module assessment
  • Provision and test environments
    • Provision and configure target environments
    • Exercise - set up service connections
    • Configure automated integration and functional test automation
    • Understand Shift-left
    • Set up and run availability tests
    • Explore Azure Load Testing
    • Set up and run functional tests
    • Module assessment
  • Manage and modularize tasks and templates
    • Examine task groups
    • Explore variables in release pipelines
    • Exercise - create and manage variable groups
    • Module assessment
  • Automate inspection of health
    • Automate inspection of health
    • Explore events and notifications
    • Explore service hooks
    • Configure Azure DevOps notifications
    • Configure GitHub notifications
    • Explore how to measure quality of your release process
    • Examine release notes and documentation
    • Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
    • Explore common release management tools
    • Module assessment
  • Introduction to deployment patterns
    • Explore microservices architecture
    • Examine classical deployment patterns
    • Understand modern deployment patterns
    • Module assessment
  • Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
    • What is blue-green deployment?
    • Explore deployment slots
    • Introduction to feature toggles
    • Describe feature toggle maintenance
    • Module assessment
  • Implement canary releases and dark launching
    • Explore canary releases
    • Examine traffic manager
    • Understand dark launching
    • Module assessment
  • Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
    • What is A/B testing?
    • Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
    • Module assessment
  • Integrate with identity management systems
    • Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
    • Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
    • Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
    • Explore workload identities
    • Implement managed identities
    • Module assessment
  • Manage application configuration data
    • Rethink application configuration data
    • Explore separation of concerns
    • Understand external configuration store patterns
    • Implement Azure DevOps secure files
    • Introduction to Azure App Configuration
    • Examine Key-value pairs
    • Examine App configuration feature management
    • Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
    • Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
    • Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
    • Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
    • Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags
    • Module assessment
  • Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
    • Explore environment deployment
    • Examine environment configuration
    • Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
    • Understand idempotent configuration
    • Module assessment
  • Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
    • Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
    • Explore template components
    • Manage dependencies
    • Modularize templates
    • Manage secrets in templates
    • Module assessment
  • Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
    • What is Azure CLI?
    • Install Azure CLI
    • Execute Azure CLI commands interactively
    • Create an Azure CLI script for Bash
    • Tips to use the Azure CLI successfully
    • Module assessment
  • Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
    • Create automation accounts
    • What is a runbook?
    • Understand automation shared resources
    • Explore runbook gallery
    • Examine webhooks
    • Explore source control integration
    • Explore PowerShell workflows
    • Create a workflow
    • Explore hybrid management
    • Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
    • Module assessment
  • Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
    • Understand configuration drift
    • Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
    • Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
    • Examine DSC configuration file
    • Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
    • Module assessment
  • Implement Bicep
    • What is Bicep?
    • Install Bicep
    • Exercise - Create Bicep templates
    • Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
    • Exercise - Deploy a Bicep file from Azure Pipelines
    • Exercise - Deploy a Bicep file from GitHub workflows
    • Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
    • Module assessment
  • Introduction to Secure DevOps
    • Describe SQL injection attack
    • Understand DevSecOps
    • Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
    • Explore key validation points
    • Explore continuous security validation
    • Understand threat modeling
    • Explore CodeQL in GitHub
    • Module assessment
  • Implement open-source software
    • Explore how software is built
    • What is open-source software?
    • Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
    • Introduction to open-source licenses
    • Explore common open-source licenses
    • Examine license implications and ratings
    • Module assessment
  • Software Composition Analysis
    • Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
    • Explore software composition analysis (SCA)
    • Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
    • Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
    • Examine tools for assess package security and license rate
    • Automate container scanning, including container images
    • Interpret alerts from scanner tools
    • Module assessment
  • Security Monitoring and Governance
    • Implement pipeline security
    • Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    • Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
    • Explore Azure Policy
    • Understand policies
    • Explore initiatives
    • Explore resource locks
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
    • Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    • Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps
    • Module assessment
  • Explore package dependencies
    • What is dependency management?
    • Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
    • Identify dependencies
    • Understand source and package componentization
    • Decompose your system
    • Scan your codebase for dependencies
    • Module assessment
  • Understand package management
    • Explore packages
    • Understand package feeds
    • Explore package feed managers
    • Explore common public package sources
    • Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources
    • Consume packages
    • Introduction to Azure Artifacts
    • Publish packages
    • Package management with Azure Artifacts
    • Module assessment
  • Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts
    • Identify existing artifact repositories
    • Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
    • Secure access to package feeds
    • Examine roles
    • Examine permissions
    • Examine authentication
    • Module assessment
  • Implement a versioning strategy
    • Understand versioning of artifacts
    • Explore semantic versioning
    • Examine release views
    • Promote packages
    • Explore best practices for versioning
    • Module assessment
  • Introduction to GitHub Packages
    • Publish packages
    • Install a package
    • Delete and restore a package
    • Explore package access control and visibility
    • Module assessment
  • Implement tools to track usage and flow
    • Understand the inner loop
    • Introduction to continuous monitoring
    • Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
    • Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
    • Explore Application Insights
    • Implement Application Insights
    • Design and implement metrics and queries
    • Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing
    • Module assessment
  • Develop monitor and status dashboards
    • Configure monitoring in GitHub
    • Explore Azure Dashboards
    • Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
    • Explore Power BI
    • Build your own custom application
    • Monitor pipeline health, including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
    • Optimize a pipeline for cost, time, performance, and reliability
    • Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance and cost
    • Module assessment
  • Share knowledge within teams
    • Share acquired knowledge within development teams
    • Introduction to Azure DevOps project wikis
    • Integrate GitHub and Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams
    • Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
    • Module assessment
  • Design processes to automate application analytics
    • Explore rapid responses and augmented search
    • Integrate telemetry
    • Examine monitoring tools and technologies
    • Explore IT Service Management Connector
    • Module assessment
  • Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
    • Examine when to get a notification
    • Explore how to fix it
    • Explore smart detection notifications
    • Improve performance
    • Understand server response time degradation
    • Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
    • Examine blameless retrospective
    • Develop a just culture
    • Module assessment
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