Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ400) | Microsoft Azure Training in Oxford

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ400 Course Outline

MODULE 1: Introduction to DevOps

• Introduction
• What is DevOps?
• Explore the DevOps journey
• Identify transformation teams
• Explore shared goals and define timelines
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 2: Choose the right project

• Introduction
• 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 minimise initial resistance
• Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 3: Describe team structures

• Introduction
• Explore agile development practices
• Explore principles of agile development
• Define organisation structure for agile practices
• Explore ideal DevOps team members
• Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration
• Select tools and processes for agile practices
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 4: Choose the DevOps tools

• Introduction
• What is Azure DevOps?
• What is GitHub?
• Explore an authorisation and access strategy
• Migrate or integrate existing work management tools
• Migrate or integrate existing test management tools
• Design a license management strategy
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 5: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Introduction
• Introduction to GitHub Projects and Project boards
• Introduction to Azure Boards
• Link GitHub to Azure Boards
• Configure GitHub Projects
• Manage work with GitHub Project boards
• Customise Project views
• Collaborate using team discussions
• Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 6: Introduction to source control

• Introduction
• Explore DevOps foundational practices
• What is source control?
• Explore benefits of source control
• Explore best practices for source control
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 7: Describe types of source control systems

• Introduction
• Understand centralised 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 8: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub

• Introduction
• Introduction to Azure Repos
• Introduction to GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Use GIT-TFS
• Develop online with GitHub Codespaces
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 9: Structure your Git Repo

• Introduction
• Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
• Implement a change log
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 10: Manage Git branches and workflows

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 11: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

• Introduction
• Collaborate with pull requests
• Exercise - Azure Repos collaborating with pull requests
• Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 12: Identify technical debt

• Introduction
• Examine code quality
• Examine complexity and quality metrics
• Introduction to technical debt
• Measure and manage technical debt
• Integrate other code quality tools
• Plan effective code reviews
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 13: Explore Git hooks

• Introduction
• Introduction to Git hooks
• Implement Git hooks
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 14: Plan foster inner source

• Introduction
• Explore foster inner source
• Implement the fork workflow
• Describe inner source with forks
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 15: Manage Git repositories

• Introduction
• Work with large repositories
• Purge repository data
• Manage releases with GitHub Repos
• Automate release notes with GitHub
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 16: Explore Azure Pipelines

• Introduction
• Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 17: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

• Introduction
• 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 understanding pipeline styles
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 18: Describe pipelines and concurrency

• Introduction
• Understand parallel jobs
• Estimate parallel jobs
• Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
• Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
• Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 19: Explore continuous integration

• Introduction
• Introduction to continuous integration
• Learn the four pillars of continuous integration
• Explore benefits of continuous integration
• Describe build properties
• Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 20: Implement a pipeline strategy

• Introduction
• Configure agent demands
• Implement multi-agent builds
• Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 21: Integrate with Azure Pipelines

• Introduction
• Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
• Understand the pipeline structure
• Detail templates
• Explore YAML resources
• Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 22: Introduction to GitHub Actions

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 23: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 24: Design a container build strategy

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 25: Introduction to continuous delivery

• Introduction
• Explore traditional IT development cycle
• What is continuous delivery?
• Move to continuous delivery
• Understand releases and deployments
• Understand release process versus release
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 26: Create a release pipeline

• Introduction
• Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
• Explore release pipelines
• Explore artifact sources
• Choose the appropriate artifact source
• Exercise - select an artifact source
• Examine considerations for deployment to stages
• Exercise - set up stages
• Explore build and release tasks
• Explore custom build and release tasks
• Explore release jobs
• Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 27: Explore release recommendations

• Introduction
• Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
• Exercise - select your delivery and deployment cadence
• Explore release approvals
• Exercise - set up manual approvals
• Explore release gates
• Use release gates to protect quality
• Control Deployments using Release Gates
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 28: Provision and test environments

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 29: Manage and modularise tasks and templates

• Introduction
• Examine task groups
• Exercise - create and manage task groups
• Explore variables in release pipelines
• Understand variable groups
• Exercise - create and manage variable groups
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 30: Automate inspection of health

• Introduction
• Automate inspection of health
• Explore events and notifications
• Explore service hooks
• Exercise - set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 31: Introduction to deployment patterns

• Introduction
• Explore microservices architecture
• Examine classical deployment patterns
• Understand modern deployment patterns
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 32: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

• Introduction
• What is blue-green deployment?
• Explore deployment slots
• Exercise - set up a blue-green deployment
• Introduction to feature toggles
• Describe feature toggle maintenance
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 33: Implement canary releases and dark launching

• Introduction
• Explore canary releases
• Examine Traffic Manager
• Understand dark launching
• Knowledge check
• Summary

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

• Introduction
• What is A/B testing?
• Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
• Exercise - Ring-based deployment
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 35: Integrate with identity management systems

• Introduction
• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Explore service principals
• Explore Managed Identity
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 36: Manage application configuration data

• Introduction
• Rethink application configuration data
• Explore separation of concerns
• Understand external configuration store patterns
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 37: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management

• Introduction
• Explore environment deployment
• Examine environment configuration
• Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
• Understand idempotent configuration
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 38: Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates

• Introduction
• Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
• Explore template components
• Manage dependencies
• Modularise templates
• Manage secrets in templates
• Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 39: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI

• Introduction
• What is Azure CLI?
• Work with Azure CLI
• Exercise - Run templates using Azure CLI
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 40: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

• Introduction
• 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
• Exercise - Create and run a workflow runbook
• Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 41: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Introduction
• Understand configuration drift
• Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
• Examine DSC configuration file
• Exercise - Import and compile
• Exercise - Onboard machines for management
• Explore hybrid management
• Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 42: Implement Bicep

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 43: Introduction to Secure DevOps

• Introduction
• Describe SQL injection attack
• Understand DevSecOps
• Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
• Explore key validation points
• Explore continuous security validation
• Understand threat modeling
• Exercise threat modeling
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 44: Implement open-source software

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 45: Software Composition Analysis

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 46: Static analysers

• Introduction
• Explore SonarCloud
• Explore CodeQL in GitHub
• Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 47: OWASP and Dynamic Analysers

• Introduction
• Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices
• Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test
• Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 48: Security Monitoring and Governance

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 49: Explore package dependencies

• Introduction
• What is dependency management?
• Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
• Identify dependencies
• Understand source and package componentisation
• Decompose your system
• Scan your codebase for dependencies
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 50: Understand package management

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 51: Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts

• Introduction
• Identify existing artifact repositories
• Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
• Secure access to package feeds
• Examine roles
• Examine permissions
• Examine authentication
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 52: Implement a versioning strategy

• Introduction
• Understand versioning of artifacts
• Explore semantic versioning
• Examine release views
• Promote packages
• Exercise - Promote a package
• Explore best practices for versioning
• Exercise - Push from the pipeline
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 53: Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Introduction
• Publish packages
• Install a package
• Delete and restore a package
• Explore package access control and visibility
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 54: Implement tools to track usage and flow

• Introduction
• 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
• Exercise - Add Application Insights to an ASP.NET core application
• Monitor application performance with Application Insights
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 55: Develop monitor and status dashboards

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Dashboards
• Examine view designer in Azure Monitor
• Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
• Explore Power BI
• Build your own custom application
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 56: Share knowledge within teams

• Introduction
• Share acquired knowledge within development teams
• Introduction to Azure DevOps project wikis
• Integrate with Azure Boards
• Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 57: Design processes to automate application analytics

• Introduction
• Explore rapid responses and augmented search
• Integrate telemetry
• Examine monitoring tools and technologies
• Knowledge check
• Summary

MODULE 58: Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary