This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Delegates will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms.
Delegates in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
By actively participating in this course, you will learn about the following:
Describe the benefits of using source control
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps
Implement and manage build infrastructure
Manage application config & secrets
Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
Explain why continuous integration matters
Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps
Configure builds and the options available
Create an automated build workflow
Integrate other build tooling with Azure DevOps
Create hybrid build processes
Describe what is meant by code quality and how it is measured
Detect code smells
Integrate automated tests for code quality
Report on code coverage during testing
Add tooling to measure technical debt
Detect open source and other licensing issues
Implement a container build strategy
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
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
Describe deployment patterns
Implement Blue Green Deployment
Implement Canary Release
Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
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
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
Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI
Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure
Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster
Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform
Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
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
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 system
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
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.
Develop a project quality strategy.
Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.
Migrate and consolidate artifacts.
Migrate and integrate source control measures.
Important - This course has MFA Requirements.
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:
Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.
Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following resources:
MAZ900 Azure Fundamentals Instructor-led course.
If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking:
MAZ104 Azure Administrator Instructor-led course.
If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking:
MAZ204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Instructor-led course.
Development for Enterprise DevOps
Introduction to DevOps
Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
Explore Git hooks
Plan foster inner source
Manage and configure repositories
Identify technical debt
Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
Explore Azure Pipelines
Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
Describe pipelines and concurrency
Design and implement a pipeline strategy
Integrate with Azure Pipelines
Introduction to GitHub Actions
Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
Design a container build strategy
Design and Implement a Release Strategy
Create a release pipline
Explore release strategy recommendations
Configure and Provision Environments
Manage and modularize tasks and templates
Automate inspection of health
Implement a Secure Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines
Introduction to deployment patterns
Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
Implement canary releases and dark launching
Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
Integrate with identity management systems
Manage application configuration data
Manage Infrastructure as Code using Azure and DSC
Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Implement Bicep
Implement Security and Validate Code Bases for Compliance
Introduction to Secure DevOps
Implement open-source software
Software Composition Analysis
Security Monitoring and Governance
Design and Implement a Dependency Management Strategy
Explore package dependencies
Understand package management
Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts
Implement a versioning strategy
Introduction to GitHub Packages
Implement Continuous Feedback
Implement tools to track usage and flow
Develop monitor and status dashboards
Share knowledge within teams
Design processes to automate application analytics
Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
This course leads to the AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam, which will earn you the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Certification.
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