During these 5 days, you will learn and acquire the skills to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.
- Planning for DevOps
- Getting started with Source Control
- Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps
- Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
- Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Managing Application Config and Secrets
- Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
- Implementing a Container Build Strategy
- Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance
- Design a Release Strategy
- Set up a Release Management Workflow
- Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
- Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
- Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
- Azure Deployment Models and Services
- Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
- Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure
- Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
- Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
- Optimize feedback mechanisms
By going deep in these topics, you will be trained and you will be prepared for Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Engineer certification exam AZ-400.
Module 1: Planning for DevOps
- Transformation Planning
- Project Selection
- Team Structures
- Migrating to Azure DevOps
Module 2: Getting started with Source Control
- What is Source Control
- Benefits of Source Control
- Types of Source Control Systems
- Introduction to Azure Repos
- Introduction to GitHub
- Migrating from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos
Module 3: Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps
- How to Structure your Git Repo
- Git Branching Workflows
- Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
- Why care about GitHooks
- Fostering Inner Source
Module 4: Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
- Packaging Dependencies
- Package Management
- Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
Module 5: Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
- The concept of pipelines in DevOps
- Azure Pipelines
- Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
- Agent Pools
- Pipelines and Concurrency
- Azure DevOps and Open Source Projects (Public Projects)
- Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
- Continuous Integration Overview
- Implementing a Build Strategy
- Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Integrate External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
- Set Up Private Agents
- Analyze and Integrate Docker Multi-Stage Builds
Module 6: Managing Application Config and Secrets
- Introduction to Security
- Implement secure and compliant development process
- Rethinking application config data
- Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
- Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline
Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
- Managing Code Quality
- Managing Security Policies
Module 8: Implementing a Container Build Strategy
- Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Module 9: Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance
- Package security
- Open source software
- Integrating license and vulnerability scans
- Implement a versioning strategy
Module 10: Design a Release Strategy
- Introduction to Continuous Delivery
- Release strategy recommendations
- Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
- Choosing a deployment pattern
- Choosing the right release management tool
Module 11: Set up a Release Management Workflow
- Create a Release Pipeline
- Provision and Configure Environments
- Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
- Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
- Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
- Automate Inspection of Health
Module 12: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
- Introduction to Deployment Patterns
- Implement Blue Green Deployment
- Feature Toggles
- Canary Releases
- Dark Launching
- AB Testing
- Progressive Exposure Deployment
Module 13: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
- Implement Tools to Track System Usage, Feature Usage, and Flow
- Implement Routing for Mobile Application Crash Report Data
- Develop Monitoring and Status Dashboards
- Integrate and Configure Ticketing Systems
Module 14: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
- Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
- Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
- Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
- Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Azure Automation with DevOps
- Additional Automation Tools
Module 15: Azure Deployment Models and Services
- Deployment Modules and Options
- Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
- Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
- Serverless and HPC Computer Services
- Azure Service Fabric
Module 16: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
Module 17: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure
- Chef
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Terraform
Module 18: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
- Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
- Azure security Center
Module 19: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
- The inner loop
- Continuous Experimentation mindset
- Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
- Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
- Design process to automate application analytics
Module 20: Optimize feedback mechanisms
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
- Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
- Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
- Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture
Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
Fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
