Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ400) | Microsoft Azure Training in Albany, NY

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
• Define Organisation 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 2: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Introduction
• 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
• Customise 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 3: Design and Implement Branch Strategies and Workflows

• Introduction
• 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 4: Collaborate with Pull Requests in Azure Repos

• Introduction
• Collaborate with Pull Requests
• Exercise: Azure Repos Collaborating with Pull Requests

Module 5: Explore Git Hooks

• Introduction to Git Hooks
• Implement Git Hooks

Module 6: Plan Foster Inner Source

• Introduction
• Explore Foster Inner Source
• Implement the Fork Workflow
• Describe Inner Source with Forks

Module 7: Manage and Configure Repositories

• Introduction
• Work with Large Repositories
• Explore Monorepo Versus Multiple Repos
• Implement a Change Log
• Implement Scalar and 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 Organise Repositories

Module 8: Identify Technical Debt

• Introduction
• 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 9: Explore Azure Pipelines

• Introduction
• Explore the Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Understand Azure Pipelines Key Terms

Module 10: 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 Pools
• 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 11: 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
• Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Module 12: Design and Implement a Pipeline Strategy

• Introduction
• 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 13: 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
• Migrate a Pipeline from Classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines

Module 14: 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

Module 15: 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

Module 16: 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

Module 17: Create a Release Pipeline

• Introduction
• 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 18: Explore Release Recommendations

• Introduction
• 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 19: 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

Module 20: Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates

• Introduction
• Examine Task Groups
• Explore Variables in Release Pipelines
• Exercise: Create and Manage Variable Groups

Module 21: Automate Inspection of Health

• Introduction
• 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 22: Introduction to Deployment Patterns

• Introduction
• Explore Microservices Architecture
• Examine Classical Deployment Patterns
• Understand Modern Deployment Patterns

Module 23: Implement Blue-Green Deployment and Feature Toggles

• Introduction
• What is Blue-Green Deployment?
• Explore Deployment Slots
• Introduction to Feature Toggles
• Describe Feature Toggle Maintenance

Module 24: Implement Canary Releases and Dark Launching

• Introduction
• Explore Canary Releases
• Examine Traffic Manager
• Understand Dark Launching

Module 25: Implement A/B Testing and Progressive Exposure Deployment

• Introduction
• What is A/B Testing?
• Explore CI-CD with Deployment Rings

Module 26: Integrate with Identity Management Systems

• Introduction
• 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 27: Manage Application Configuration Data

• Introduction
• 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 28: Explore Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management

• Introduction
• Explore Environment Deployment
• Examine Environment Configuration
• Understand Imperative Versus Declarative Configuration
• Understand Idempotent Configuration

Module 29: 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

Module 30: Create Azure Resources by Using Azure CLI

• Introduction
• What is Azure CLI?
• Work with Azure CLI

Module 31: 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
• Examine Checkpoint and Parallel Processing

Module 32: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Introduction
• 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 33: 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
• Deployments Using Azure Bicep Templates

Module 34: Explore Package Dependencies

• Introduction
• 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 35: 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

Module 36: Migrate, Consolidate and Secure Artifacts

• Introduction
• Identify Existing Artifact Repositories
• Migrate and Integrate Artifact Repositories
• Secure Access to Package Feeds
• Examine Roles
• Examine Permissions
• Examine Authentication

Module 37: Implement a Versioning Strategy

• Introduction
• Understand Versioning of Artifacts
• Explore Semantic Versioning
• Examine Release Views
• Promote Packages
• Explore Best Practices for Versioning

Module 38: Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Introduction
• Publish Packages
• Install a Package
• Delete and Restore a Package
• Explore Package Access Control and Visibility

Module 39: 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)
• Implement Application Insights
• Design and Implement Metrics and Queries
• Monitor Application Performance with Application Insights

Module 40: Develop Monitor and Status Dashboards

• Introduction
• 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
• Optimise a Pipeline for Cost, Time, Performance, and Reliability
• Optimise Pipeline Concurrency for Performance and Cost

Module 41: Share Knowledge Within Teams

• Introduction
• 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 42: Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics

• Introduction
• Explore Rapid Responses and Augmented Search
• Integrate Telemetry
• Examine Monitoring Tools and Technologies
• Explore IT Service Management Connector

Module 43: Manage Alerts, Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture

• Introduction
• 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 44: 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
• Explore CodeQL in GitHub

Module 45: 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

Module 46: Software Composition Analysis

• Introduction
• 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 47: 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
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps