Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions (AZ-400)
- Course Code M-AZ400
- Duration 4 days
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Course Overview
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28-31 October, 2024
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Target Audience
TopCourse Objectives
Top- 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
- Describe the benefits of using Source Control
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
- Manage code quality, including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
- Build organizational knowledge on code quality
- 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
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
- 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
- Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
- Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
- 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
Course Content
TopModule 1: Get started on a DevOps transformation journey
Lessons M1
- Introduction to DevOps
- Choose the right project
- Describe team structures
- Choose the DevOps tools
- Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Introduction to source control
- Describe types of source control systems
- Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
Lab : Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
Lab : Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
After completing module 1, students will be able to:
- Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
- Identify teams to implement the process
- Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
- Plan and define timelines for goals
- Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
- Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
- Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
- Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
- Create a team and agile organizational structure
Module 2: Development for enterprise DevOps
Lessons M2
- Structure your Git Repo
- Manage Git branches and workflows
- Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
- Explore Git hooks
- Plan foster inner source
- Manage Git repositories
- Identify technical debt
Lab : Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
After completing module 2, students will be able to:
- Understand Git repositories
- Implement mono repo or multiple repos
- Explain how to structure Git Repos
- Implement a change log
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Implement feature branches
- Implement GitFlow
- Fork a repo
- Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Give feedback using pull requests
Module 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
Lessons M3
- Explore Azure Pipelines
- Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
- Describe pipelines and concurrency
- Explore Continuous integration
- Implement a pipeline strategy
- Integrate with Azure Pipelines
- Introduction to GitHub Actions
- Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
- Design a container build strategy
Lab : Configuring agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
Lab : Enabling continuous integration with Azure Pipelines
Lab : Integrating external source control with Azure Pipelines
Lab : Implementing GitHub Actions by using DevOps Starter
Lab : Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service web apps
After completing module 3, students will be able to:
- Describe Azure Pipelines
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
- Understand Azure Pipeline key terms
- Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
- Install and configure Azure pipelines Agents
- Configure agent pools
- Make the agents and pools secure
- Use and estimate parallel jobs
Module 4: Design and implement a release strategy
Lessons M4
- Introduction to continuous delivery
- Create a release pipeline
- Explore release strategy recommendations
- Provision and test environments
- Manage and modularize tasks and templates
- Automate inspection of health
Lab : Creating a release dashboard
Lab : Controlling deployments using Release Gates
After completing module 4, students will be able to:
- Explain continuous delivery (CD)
- Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
- Understand releases and deployment
- Identify project opportunities to apply CD
- Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
- Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
- Create a release approval plan
- Implement release gates
- Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Module 5: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines
Lessons M5
- 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
Lab : Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
Lab : Setting up and running functional tests
Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
After completing module 5, 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
- Implement release jobs
- Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
- Provision and configure target environment
- Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
- Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
- Setup test infrastructure
- Use and manage task and variable groups
Module 6: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
Lessons M6
- 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
Lab : Azure deployments using Azure Resource Manager templates
After completing module 6, students will be able to:
- Understand how to deploy your environment
- Plan your environment configuration
- Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
- Explain idempotent configuration
- Create Azure resources using ARM templates
- Understand ARM templates and template components
- Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
- Organize and modularize templates
- Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
Module 7: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance
Lessons M7
- Introduction to Secure DevOps
- Implement open-source software
- Software Composition Analysis
- Static analyzers
- OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
- Security Monitoring and Governance
Lab : Implement security and compliance in Azure Pipelines
Lab : Managing technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps
After completing module 7, students will be able to:
- Identify SQL injection attack
- Understand DevSecOps
- Implement pipeline security
- Understand threat modeling
- Implement open-source software
- Explain corporate concerns for open-source components
- Describe open-source licenses
- Understand the license implications and ratings
- Work with Static and Dynamic Analyzers
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Module 8: Design and implement a dependency management strategy
Lessons M8
- Explore package dependencies
- Understand package management
- Migrate, consolidate, and secure artifacts
- Implement a versioning strategy
- Introduction to GitHub Packages
Lab : Package management with Azure Artifacts
After completing module 8, students will be able to:
- Define dependency management strategy
- Identify dependencies
- Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
- Scan your codebase for dependencies
- Implement package management
- Manage package feed
- Consume and create packages
- Publish packages
- Identify artifact repositories
- Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
Module 9: Implement continuous feedback
Lessons M9
- 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
Lab : Monitoring application performance with Application Insights
Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
Lab : Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis
After completing module 9, students will be able to:
- Implement tools to track feedback
- Plan for continuous monitoring
- Implement Application Insights
- Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Implement routing for mobile applications
- Configure App Center Diagnostics
- Configure alerts
- Create a bug tracker
- Configure Azure Dashboards
- Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
Course Prerequisites
TopSuccessful 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.
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