Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400

Curriculum

Topics Covered

• Module 1: Planning for DevOps
  • Transformation Planning
  • Project Selection
  • Team Structures
  • Migrating to Azure DevOps
  Hands-on:
  • Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
• Module 2: Getting started with Source Control
  In this module you will learn about managing your subscription and accounts, Governance with Azure Policies and RBAC Lesson:
  • 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
  • Authenticating to Git in Azure Repos
  Hand-On
  • Version Controlling with Git
• Module 3: Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps
  • Lesson:
  • How to Structure your Git Repo
  • Git Branching Workflows
  • Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
  • Why care about GitHooks
  • Fostering Inner Source
  Hands-On:
  • Code Review with Pull Requests
• Module 4: Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
  • Packaging Dependencies
  • Package Management
  • Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
  Hands-On :
  • Updating Packages
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• Module 5:: Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
  In this module you will learn about Intersite connectivity using VNET Peering and VPN and Site to Site Connections Lesson:
  • 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
  Hands-On :
  • Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
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  • Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
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  • Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
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  • Deploying a Multi-Container Application
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• 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
  Hands-On :
  • Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
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• Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
  Lesson:
  • Managing Code Quality
  • Managing Security Policies
  Hands-On :
  • Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
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• Module 8: Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance
  Lesson:
  • Package security
  • Open-source software
• Module 9: Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance
  Lesson:
  • Package security
  • Open-source software
  • Integrating license and vulnerability scans
  • Implement a versioning strategy (git version)
  Hands-On :
  • Manage Open-Source Security and License with WhiteSource
• Module 10: Design a Release Strategy
  Lesson:
  • 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
  Lesson:
  • 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
  Hands-On :
  • Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML
  • Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
  • Setting up and Running Functional Tests
  • Using Azure Monitor as release gate
  • Creating a release Dashboard
• Module 12: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
  Lesson:
  • Introduction to Deployment Patterns
  • Implement Blue Green Deployment
  • Feature Toggles
  • Canary Releases
  • Dark Launching
  • AB Testing
  • Progressive Exposure Deployment
  Hands-On :
  • Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps
• Module 13: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
  Lesson:
  • 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
  Hands-On :
  • Monitoring Application Performance
• Module 14: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
  Lesson:
  • Introduction to Mobile DevOps
  • Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
  • Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups
  • Manage target UI test device sets
  • Provision tester devices for deployment
  • Create public and private distribution groups
• Module 15: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
  Lesson:
  • 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
  Hands-on:
  • Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates
• Module 16: Azure Deployment Models and Services
  Lesson:
  • 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
  Hands-on:
  • Azure Automation – IaaS or PaaS deployment
• Module 17: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
  Lesson:
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  Hands-on:
  • Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service
• Module 18: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure
  Lesson:
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  Hands-on:
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
• Module 19: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
  Lesson:
  • Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
  • Azure security Center
  Hands-on:
  • Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
• Module 20: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
  Lesson:
  • 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
  Hands-on:
  • Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams
• Module 21: Optimize feedback mechanisms
  Lesson:
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
  • Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
  • Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture