Azure DevOps Engineer Training (AZ-400)

Instructor-Led Course Outline

• Part 1 — AZ-400T01: Implementing DevOps Development Processes

  Module 1: Getting started with Source Control
  Lessons

  • What is Source Control?
  • Benefits of Source Control
  • Types of source control systems
  • Introduction to Azure Repos
  • Migrating from TFVC to Git
  • Authenticating to your Git Repos

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe the benefits of using source control
  • Migrate from TFVC to Git

  
  Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps
  Lessons

  • How to structure your git repo
  • Git Branching workflows
  • Collaborating with Pull Requests
  • Why care about GitHooks?
  • Fostering Internal Open Source
  • Git Version
  • Public projects
  • Files in Git

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps

  
  Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure
  Lessons

  • The concept of pipelines in DevOps
  • Azure Pipelines
  • Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
  • Agent pools
  • Pipelines & Concurrency
  • Azure DevOps and Open Source projects
  • Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
  • Setup private agents
  • Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
  • Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines
  • Analyze & Integrate Docker multi-stage builds

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Implement and manage build infrastructure

  
  Module 4: Managing application config & secrets
  Lessons

  • Introduction to Security
  • Implement secure & compliant development process
  • Rethinking application config data
  • Manage secrets, tokens & certificates
  • Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Manage application config & secrets

  
  Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
  Lessons

  • 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
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

• Part 2 — AZ-400T02: Implementing Continuous Integration

  Module 1: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
  In this module, you’ll be introduced to continuous integration principles including: benefits, challenges, build best practices, and implementation steps. You will also learn about implementing a build strategy with workflows, triggers, agents, and tools.
  Lessons

  • Continuous Integration Overview
  • Implementing a Build Strategy

  Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
  Lab : Creating a Jenkins Build Job and Triggering CI
  
  After completing this module, students will:

  • Explain why continuous integration matters
  • Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

  
  Module 2: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
  In this module, you will be learn how to manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions. You will also learn how to manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.
  Lessons

  • Managing Code Quality
  • Managing Security Policies

  Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
  Lab : Checking Vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt and Azure DevOps
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.
  • Manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.
  • Manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.

  
  Module 3: Implementing a Container Build Strategy
  In this module, you will learn how to implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers. You will also learn how to implement containers using Docker.
  Lessons

  • Implementing a Container Build Strategy

  Lab : Existing .NET Applications with Azure and Docker Images
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers.
  • Implement containers using Docker.

• Part 3 — AZ-400T03: Implementing Continuous Delivery

  Module 1: Design a Release Strategy
  Lessons

  • Introduction to Continuous Delivery Release strategy recommendations
  • Building a High Quality Release pipeline
  • Choosing a deployment pattern
  • Choosing the right release management tool

  Lab : Building a release strategy
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Differentiate between a release and a deployment Define the components of a release pipeline
  • Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
  • Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
  • Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
  • Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
  • Choose a release management tool

  
  Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow
  Lessons

  • 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

  Lab : Automating your infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
  Lab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
  Lab : Setting up and Running Load Tests
  Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests
  Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gate
  Lab : Creating a Release Dashboard
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • 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
  • Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
  • Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
  • Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
  • Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
  • Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
  • Embed testing in the pipeline
  • List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports
  • Create a release gate

  
  Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
  Lessons

  • Introduction into Deployment Patterns Implement Blue Green Deployment
  • Feature Toggles
  • Canary Releases
  • Dark Launching
  • AB Testing
  • Progressive Exposure Deployment

  Lab : Blue-Green Deployments
  Lab : Traffic Manager
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe deployment patterns
  • Implement Blue Green Deployment
  • Implement Canary Release
  • Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

• Part 4 — AZ-400T04: Implementing Dependency Management

  Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
  Lessons

  • Introduction
  • Packaging dependencies
  • Package management
  • Implement a versioning strategy

  Lab : Updating packages
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Recommend artifact management tools and practices
  • Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
  • Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
  • Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution
  • Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages
  • Manage security and compliance

  
  Module 2: Manage security and compliance
  Lessons

  • Introduction
  • Package security
  • Open source software
  • Integrating license and vulnerability scans

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards
  • Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
  • Configure secure access to package feeds

• Part 5 — AZ-400T05: Implementing Application Infrastructure

  Module 1: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
  Lessons

  • Learning Objectives
  • 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
  • Additional Automation Tools
  • Version Control
  • Lab Deploy to Azure using ARM templates
  • Module Review Questions

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
  • Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

  
  Module 2: Azure Deployment Models and Services
  Lessons

  • Learning Objectives
  • Deployment Models and Options
  • Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
  • Azure Automation with DevOps
  • Desired State Configuration (DSC)
  • Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Lab Azure Automation - IaaS or PaaS deployment
  • Module Review Questions

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

  
  Module 3: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
  Lessons

  • Learning Objectives
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster
  • Module Review Questions

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

  
  
  Module 4: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure
  Lessons

  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Cloud-Init
  • Terraform
  • Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X
  • Module Review Questions

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform

  
  Module 5: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
  Lessons

  • Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
  • Azure Security Center
  • Lab Integrate a scanning extension or tool in an AZ DevOps pipeline/security center
  • Module Review Questions

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
  • Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

  
  Module 6: Course Completion
  Lessons

  • Final Exam

• Part 6 — AZ-400T06: Implementing Continuous Feedback

  Module 1: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
  Lessons

  • 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

  Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams
  Lab : Feature Flags
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
  • Design routing for client application crash report data
  • Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
  • Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools

  
  Module 2: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
  Lessons

  • 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

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Configure crash report integration for client applications
  • Develop monitoring and status dashboards
  • Implement routing for client application crash report data
  • Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
  • Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management

  
  Module 3: Optimize feedback mechanisms
  Lessons

  • 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 PostMortems and a Just Culture

  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
  • Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
  • Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
  • Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

• Part 7 —  AZ-400T07: Designing a DevOps Strategy

  Module 1: Planning for DevOps
  In this module, students will learn about transformation planning, project selection, and team structures.
  Lessons

  • Transformation Planning
  • Project Selection
  • Team Structures

  Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
  
  After completing this module students will be able to:

  • Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
  • Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
  • Create a team and agile organizational structure

  
  Module 2: Planning for Quality and Security
  In this module, students will learn about developing a quality strategy and planning for secure development.
  Lessons

  • Planning a Quality Strategy
  • Planning Secure Development

  Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and AzureDevOps
  
  After completing the module, students will be able to:

  • Develop a project quality strategy
  • Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.

  
  Module 3: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools
  In this module, students will learn about migrating and consolidating artifacts, and migrating and integrating source control measures.
  Lessons

  • Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
  • Migrating and Integrating Source Control

  Lab : Integrating Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines with Eclipse
  
  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Migrate and consolidate artifacts
  • Migrate and integrate source control measures