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Designing & Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Course Code

AZ-400T00

Duration

4 Days

About the Course

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. 


Course Outcome  

Upon completing the AZ-400 DevOps Solutions course, participants will:  

 

  • Master DevOps Processes: Gain comprehensive knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes effectively.  

  • Agile Planning and Collaboration: Understand and apply agile practices, create team structures, and select tools for efficient collaboration.  

  • Source Control Proficiency: Become proficient in source control, mastering Git repositories, branches, and pull requests using Azure Repos and GitHub.  

  • CI/CD Implementation: Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions, design container build strategies, and manage release pipelines.  

  • Infrastructure as Code: Learn to deploy environments, utilize Azure Resource Manager templates, and explore infrastructure configuration options.  

  • Security and Compliance: Implement Secure DevOps practices, handle open-source software securely, and configure security monitoring and governance using tools like Microsoft Defender for Cloud. 

 

Course Outline


Module 1: Introduction to DevOps  

  • Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it 

  • Identify teams to implement the process  

  • Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines  

  • Plan and define timelines for goals  


Module 2: Choose the right project 

  • Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey  

  • Select a project to start the DevOps transformation  

  • Identify groups to minimize initial resistance  

  • Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)  


Module 3: Describe team structures 

  • Understand agile practices and principles of agile development  

  • Create a team and agile organizational structure  

  • Identify ideal DevOps team members  

  • Select and configure tools for collaboration  


Module 4: Choose the DevOps tools  

  • 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

  

Module 5: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards  

  • Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards  

  • Link Azure Boards and GitHub  

  • Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards  

  • Customize Project views  


Module 6: Introduction to source control  

  • Understand source control  

  • Apply best practices for source control 

  • Describe the benefits of using source control 


Module 7: Describe types of source control systems 

  • Apply source control practices in your development process  

  • Explain differences between centralized and distributed version control  

  • Understand Git and TFVC  

  • Develop using Git 


Module 8: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub 

  • Describe Azure Repos and GitHub  

  • Migrate from TFVC to Git  

  • Work with GitHub Codespaces 


Module 9: Structure your Git Repo 

  • Understand Git repositories  

  • Implement mono repo or multiple repos  

  • Explain how to structure Git Repos  

  • Implement a change log 


Module 10: Manage Git branches and workflows  

  • Describe Git branching workflows  

  • Implement feature branches  

  • Implement GitHub Flow  

  • Fork a repo 


Module 11: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos  

  • Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews  

  • Give feedback using pull requests  

  • Configure branch policies  

  • Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals 


Module 12: Identify technical debt  

  • Identify and manage technical debt  

  • Integrate code quality tools  

  • Plan code reviews 

  • Describe complexity and quality metrics 


Module 13: Explore Git hooks  

  • Understand Git hooks  

  • Identify when used Git hooks  

  • Implement Git hooks for automation  

  • Explain Git hooks' behavior 

 

Module 14: Plan foster inner source  

  • Use Git to foster inner source across the organization  

  • Implement fork workflow  

  • Choose between branches and forks  

  • Share code between forks 


Module 15: Manage Git repositories 

  • Understand large Git repositories  

  • Explain VFS for Git  

  • Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)  

  • Purge repository data  

  • Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub 


Module 16: Explore Azure Pipelines 

  • Describe Azure Pipelines  

  • Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components  

  • Decide Pipeline automation responsibility  

  • Understand Azure Pipeline key terms 


Module 17: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools 

  • Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents  

  • Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents  

  • Configure agent pools  

  • Make the agents and pools secure  

  • Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines 


Module 18: Describe pipelines and concurrency 

  • Use and estimate parallel jobs  

  • Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects  

  • Use Visual Designer  

  • Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML 


Module 19: Explore continuous integration  

  • Explain why continuous integration matters  

  • Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines  

  • Explain benefits of continuous integration  

  • Describe build properties 


Module 20: Implement a pipeline strategy 

  • Define a build strategy  

  • Explain and configure demands  

  • Implement multi-agent builds  

  • Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines 

 

Module 21: Integrate with Azure Pipelines  

  • Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure  

  • Detail templates and YAML resources  

  • Implement and use multiple repositories 


Module 22: Introduction to GitHub Actions  

  • Explain GitHub Actions and workflows  

  • Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows  

  • Describe Events, Jobs and Runners  

  • Examine output and release management for actions 


Module 23: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions  

  • Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions  

  • Use environment variables  

  • Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags  

  • Create and manage secrets 


Module 24: Design a container build strategy 

  • Design a container strategy  

  • Work with Docker Containers  

  • Create an Azure Container Registry  

  • Explain Docker microservices and containers 


Module 25: Introduction to continuous delivery  

  • Explain continuous delivery (CD)  

  • Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle  

  • Understand releases and deployment  

  • Identify project opportunities to apply CD 


Module 26: Create a release pipeline  

  • Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling  

  • Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks  

  • Implement release jobs 


Module 27: Explore release recommendations  

  • Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy  

  • Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources  

  • Create a release approval plan  

  • Implement release gates 


Module 28: Provision and test environments 

  • Provision and configure target environment  

  • Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection  

  • Configure functional test automation and run availability tests  

  • Setup test infrastructure 


Module 29: Manage and modularize tasks and templates  

  • Use and manage task and variable groups  

  • Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline  

  • Use variables in release pipelines 


Module 30: Automate inspection of health  

  • Implement automated inspection of health 

  • Create and configure events  

  • Configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub  

  • Create service hooks to monitor pipeline  

  • Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both  

  • Choose a release management tool 


Module 31: Introduction to deployment patterns  

  • Describe deployment patterns  

  • Explain microservices architecture  

  • Understand classical and modern deployment patterns  

  • Plan and design your architecture 


Module 32: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles  

  • Explain deployment strategies  

  • Implement blue green deployment  

  • Understand deployment slots  

  • Implement and manage feature toggles


Module 33: Implement canary releases and dark launching  

  • Describe deployment strategies  

  • Implement canary release  

  • Explain traffic manager  

  • Understand dark launching 


Module 34: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment  

  • Implement progressive exposure deployment  

  • Implement A/B testing  

  • Implement CI/CD with deployment rings  

  • Identify the best deployment strategy 


Module 35: Integrate with identity management systems  

  • Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems  

  • Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)  

  • Understand and create a service principal 

  • Create managed service identities 


Module 36: Manage application configuration data  

  • Rethink application configuration data  

  • Understand separation of concerns  

  • Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines  

  • Manage secrets, tokens and certificates  

  • Describe Azure App Configuration  

  • Understand Key-value pairs  

  • Understand app configuration feature management  

  • Implement application configuration 

 

Module 37: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management  

  • Understand how to deploy your environment  

  • Plan your environment configuration  

  • Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration  

  • Explain idempotent configuration 


Module 38: Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates  

  • Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates  

  • Understand Azure Resource Manager templates and template components  

  • Manage dependencies and secrets in templates  

  • Organize and modularize templates 


Module 39: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI  

  • Create Azure resources using Azure CLI  

  • Understand and work with Azure CLI  

  • Run templates using Azure CLI  

  • Explains Azure CLI commands 


Module 40: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps  

  • Implement automation with Azure DevOps  

  • Create and manage runbooks  

  • Create webhooks 

  • Create and run a workflow runbook and PowerShell workflows 


Module 41: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)  

  • Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)  

  • Describe Azure Automation State Configuration  

  • Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure  

  • Plan for hybrid management 

 

Module 42: Implement Bicep  

  • Learn what Bicep is  

  • Learn how to install it and create a smooth authoring experience  

  • Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure  

  • Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code 


Module 43: Introduction to Secure DevOps 

  • Identify SQL injection attack  

  • Understand DevSecOps  

  • Implement pipeline security  

  • Understand threat modelling 


Module 44: Implement open-source software  

  • Implement open-source software  

  • Explain corporate concerns for open-source components  

  • Describe open-source licenses  

  • Understand the license implications and ratings 

 

Module 45: Software Composition Analysis  

  • Inspect and validate code bases for compliance  

  • Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps  

  • Implement pipeline security validation  

  • Interpret alerts from scanning tools  

  • Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts and security 


Module 46: Static analyzers  

  • Understand Static Analyzers 

  • Work with SonarCloud  

  • Work with CodeQL in GitHub  

  • Interpret alerts from scanning tools 


Module 47: OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers  

  • Understand OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers  

  • Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices  

  • Understand compliance for code bases 


Module 48: Security Monitoring and Governance  

  • Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud  

  • Understand Azure policies  

  • Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints  

  • Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity 

 

Module 49: Explore package dependencies 

  • Define dependency management strategy  

  • Identify dependencies  

  • Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management  

  • Scan your codebase for dependencies 


Module 50: Understand package management  

  • Implement package management  

  • Manage package feed  

  • Consume and create packages  

  • Publish packages 


Module 51: Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts 

  • Identify artifact repositories  

  • Migrate and integrate artifact repositories  

  • Secure package feeds  

  • Understand roles, permissions and authentication 


Module 52: Implement a versioning strategy  

  • Implement a versioning strategy 

  • Promote packages  

  • Push packages from pipeline  

  • Describe semantic and explore best practices for versioning 


Module 53: Introduction to GitHub Packages  

  • Publish packages  

  • Install packages  

  • Delete and restore packages  

  • Configure access control and visibility 


Module 54: Implement tools to track usage and flow 

  • Implement tools to track feedback  

  • Plan for continuous monitoring  

  • Implement Application Insights  

  • Use Kusto Query Language (KQL) 


Module 55: Develop monitor and status dashboards  

  • Configure Azure Dashboards  

  • Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor  

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