Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

Lesprogramma – Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Strateg

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

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

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

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 Tool

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

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

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

Module 17: Implementing Feedback for Development Teams

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

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

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

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