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4 Days
24 CPD hours
This course is intended for
Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
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
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.
AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator
AZ-204T00: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
What is DevOps?
Explore the DevOps journey
Identify transformation teams
Explore shared goals and define timelines
Explore greenfield and brownfield projects
Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects
Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement
Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)
Explore agile development practices
Explore principles of agile development
Define organization structure for agile practices
Explore ideal DevOps team members
Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration
Select tools and processes for agile practices
What is Azure DevOps?
What is GitHub?
Explore an authorization and access strategy
Migrate or integrate existing work management tools
Migrate or integrate existing test management tools
Design a license management strategy
Link GitHub to Azure Boards
Configure GitHub Projects
Manage work with GitHub Project boards
Customize Project views
Collaborate using team discussions
Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
Explore DevOps foundational practices
What is source control?
Explore benefits of source control
Explore best practices for source control
Understand centralized source control
Understand distributed source control
Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control
Examine and choose Git
Understand objections to using Git
Describe working with Git locally
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Use GIT-TFS
Develop online with GitHub Codespaces
Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
Implement a change log
Explore branch workflow types
Explore feature branch workflow
Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
Explore GitHub flow
Explore fork workflow
Version Control with Git in Azure Repos
Collaborate with pull requests
Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals
Examine code quality
Examine complexity and quality metrics
Measure and manage technical debt
Integrate other code quality tools
Plan effective code reviews
Implement Git hooks
Explore foster inner source
Implement the fork workflow
Describe inner source with forks
Work with large repositories
Purge repository data
Manage releases with GitHub Repos
Automate release notes with GitHub
Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
Describe Azure Pipelines
Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
Explore job types
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 understanding pipeline styles
Understand parallel jobs
Estimate parallel jobs
Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
Learn the four pillars of continuous integration
Explore benefits of continuous integration
Describe build properties
Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Configure agent demands
Implement multi-agent builds
Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
Understand the pipeline structure
Detail templates
Explore YAML resources
Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
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
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
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
Explore traditional IT development cycle
What is continuous delivery?
Move to continuous delivery
Understand releases and deployments
Understand release process versus release
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
Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
Explore release approvals
Explore release gates
Use release gates to protect quality
Control Deployments using Release Gates
Provision and configure target environments
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
Examine task groups
Explore variables in release pipelines
Understand variable groups
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
Explore microservices architecture
Examine classical deployment patterns
Understand modern deployment patterns
What is blue-green deployment?
Explore deployment slots
Describe feature toggle maintenance
Explore canary releases
Examine Traffic Manager
Understand dark launching
What is A/B testing?
Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
Explore service principals
Explore Managed Identity
Rethink application configuration data
Explore separation of concerns
Understand external configuration store patterns
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
Explore environment deployment
Examine environment configuration
Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
Understand idempotent configuration
Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
Explore template components
Manage dependencies
Modularize templates
Manage secrets in templates
Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
What is Azure CLI?
Work with Azure CLI
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
Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
Understand configuration drift
Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
Examine DSC configuration file
Explore hybrid management
Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
What is Bicep?
Install Bicep
Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
Describe SQL injection attack
Understand DevSecOps
Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
Explore key validation points
Explore continuous security validation
Understand threat modeling
Explore how software is built
What is open-source software
Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
Explore common open-source licenses
Examine license implications and ratings
Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
Explore software composition analysis (SCA)
Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines
Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
Examine tools for assess package security and license rate
Interpret alerts from scanner tools
Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline
Explore SonarCloud
Explore CodeQL in GitHub
Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps
Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices
Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test
Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs
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
Explore Azure Blueprints
Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
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
Explore packages
Understand package feeds
Explore package feed managers
Explore common public package sources
Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources
Consume packages
Publish packages
Package management with Azure Artifacts
Identify existing artifact repositories
Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
Secure access to package feeds
Examine roles
Examine permissions
Examine authentication
Understand versioning of artifacts
Explore semantic versioning
Examine release views
Promote packages
Explore best practices for versioning
Publish packages
Install a package
Delete and restore a package
Explore package access control and visibility
Understand the inner loop
Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Explore Application Insights
Implement Application Insights
Monitor application performance with Application Insights
Explore Azure Dashboards
Examine view designer in Azure Monitor
Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
Explore Power BI
Build your own custom application
Share acquired knowledge within development teams
Integrate with Azure Boards
Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
Explore rapid responses and augmented search
Integrate telemetry
Examine monitoring tools and technologies
Examine when 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
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