Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training (AZ-400)

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training Outline

• Module 1: Planning for DevOps

  Lessons

  • Transformation Planning
  • Project Selection
  • Team Structures
  • Migrating to Azure DevOps

  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 Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
  • Create a team and agile organizational structure
  • Design a tool integration strategy
  • Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
  • Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
  • Design an authentication and access strategy
  • Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

• Module 2: Getting Started with Source Control

  Lessons

  • 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

  Lab : Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe the benefits of using Source Control
  • Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
  • Migrate from TFVC to Git

• Module 3: Managing Technical Debt

  Lessons

  • Identifying Technical Debt
  • Knowledge Sharing within Teams
  • Modernizing Development Environments with Codespaces

  Lab : Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
  • Build organizational knowledge on code quality

• Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps

  Lessons

  • How to Structure Your Git Repo
  • Git Branching Workflows
  • Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
  • Why Care About Git Hooks
  • Fostering Inner Source
  • Managing Git Repositories

  Lab : Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain how to structure Git repos
  • Describe Git branching workflows
  • Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
  • Leverage Git hooks for automation
  • Use Git to foster inner source across the organization

• Module 5: Configuring Azure Pipelines

  Lessons

  • The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
  • Azure Pipelines
  • Evaluate use of Hosted versus Self-Hosted Agents
  • Agent Pools
  • Pipelines and Concurrency
  • Azure DevOps and Open-Source Projects (Public Projects)
  • Azure Pipelines YAML versus Visual Designer

  Lab : Configuring Agent Pools and Understanding Pipeline Styles

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
  • Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines

• Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines

  Lessons

  • Continuous Integration Overview
  • Implementing a Build Strategy
  • Integration with Azure Pipelines
  • Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
  • Set Up Self-Hosted Agents

  Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

  Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

• Module 7: Managing Application Configuration and Secrets

  Lessons

  • Introduction to Security
  • Implement a Secure Development Process
  • Rethinking Application Configuration Data
  • Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates
  • Integrating with Identity Management Systems
  • Implementing Application Configuration

  Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Manage application configuration and secrets
  • Integrate Azure Key Vault with a pipeline

• Module 8: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

  Lessons

  • GitHub Actions
  • Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
  • Securing Secrets for GitHub Actions

  Lab : GitHub Actions Continuous Integration

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
  • Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

• Module 9: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy

  Lessons

  • Packaging Dependencies
  • Package Management
  • Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
  • Package Security
  • Implementing a Versioning Strategy

  Lab : Package Management with Azure Artifacts

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Recommend artifact management tools and practices
  • Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
  • Migrate and consolidate artifacts
  • Migrate and integrate source control measures

• Module 10: Designing a Release Strategy

  Lessons

  • Introduction to Continuous Delivery
  • Release Strategy Recommendations
  • Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
  • Choosing the Right Release Management Tool

  Lab : Controlling Deployments using Release Gates

  Lab : Creating a Release Dashboard

  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
  • Choose a release management tool

• Module 11: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines

  Lessons

  • Create a Release Pipeline
  • Provision and Configure Environments
  • Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
  • Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
  • Automate Inspection of Health

  Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML

  Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests

  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
  • 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
  • List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using alerts, service hooks, and reports

• Module 12: Implementing an Appropriate Deployment Pattern

  Lessons

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

  Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

• Module 13: Managing Infrastructure and Configuration using Azure Tools

  Lessons

  • Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
  • Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
  • Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
  • Azure Automation with DevOps
  • Desired State Configuration (DSC)

  Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

  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 14: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools Available with Azure

  Lessons

  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Terraform

  Lab : Automating Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

  Lab : Deploying Apps with Chef on Azure

  Lab : Deploy App with Puppet on Azure

  Lab : Ansible with Azure

  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, and Terraform

• Module 15: Managing Containers using Docker

  Lessons

  • Implementing a Container Build Strategy
  • Implementing Docker Multi-Stage Builds

  Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

  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
  • Implement Docker multi-stage builds

• Module 16: Creating and Managing Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

  Lessons

  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Kubernetes Tooling
  • Integrating AKS with Pipelines

  Lab : Deploying a Multi-Container Application to Azure Kubernetes Service

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

• Module 17: Implementing Feedback for 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

  Lab : Monitoring Application Performance with Application Insights

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

• Module 18: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms

  Lessons

  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Design Practices to Measure End-User Satisfaction
  • Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
  • Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
  • Managing Alerts
  • Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture

  Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Define Site Reliability Engineering
  • Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
  • Design processes to automate application analytics
  • Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
  • Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture

• Module 19: Implementing Security in DevOps Projects

  Lessons

  • Security in the Pipeline
  • Azure Security Center

  Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

  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 20: Validating Code Bases for Compliance

  Lessons

  • Open-Source Software
  • Managing Security and Compliance Policies
  • Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans

  Lab : Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps

  After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
  • Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
  • Manage organizational security and compliance policies
  • Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
  • Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings