Azure DevOps

AZ – 400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Training Course Content

Session 1: Design a DevOpsstrategy Migration and consolidation strategy – DevOpstools

➢ Analyze existing artifact – deployment packages, NuGet, Maven, npm

➢ Container repositories

➢ Test management tools

➢ Work managementtools

➢ Recommend migration and integration strategies

o Artifact repositories

o Source control

o Test management

o Workmanagement

Session 2: Understanding Agile work management approach

➢ Identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and DevOps measurements

➢ Agile work management

➢ Mentor team members on Agile techniques and practices

➢ Scaling Agile practices

➢ Understanding in-team and cross-team collaboration mechanisms

Session 3: Design a quality strategy

➢ Analyze existing quality environment

➢ Working quality metrics

➢ Feature flag lifecycle

➢ Measuring and managing technical debt

➢ Changesto team structure to optimize quality

➢ Recommend performance testing strategy

Session 4: Design a secure development process

➢ Inspect and validate code base for compliance

➢ Inspect and validate infrastructure for compliance

➢ Secure developmentstrategy

➢ Integrate code security validation – static code analysis

➢ Integrate infrastructure security validation

Session 5: Design a tool integration strategy

➢ To design a license managementstrategy

• VSTS users

• concurrent pipelines

• test environments,

• open source software licensing

• third-party DevOpstools and services

• package management licensing

➢ Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work itemsto working software

➢ Integrating monitoring and feedback to development teams

➢ Authentication and accessstrategy

➢ Integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Session 6: Implement DevOps development processes Design a version controlstrategy

➢ Working with Branching models ➢ Introduction to Version control systems

➢ Understaning Code flow strategy

Session 7: Implement and integrate source control

➢ Externalsource control

➢ Integrate source control into third-party continuousintegration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)systems

Session 8: Implement and manage build infrastructure

➢ Private and hosted agents

➢ Working with third party build systems

➢ Concurrent pipelines

➢ Manage Azure pipeline configuration

• Agent queues

• Service endpoints

• Pools

• Webhooks

Session 9: Implement code flow

➢ Pull requeststrategies

➢ Branch and fork strategies

➢ configure branch policies

Session 10: Managing application configuration and secrets

➢ Secure and compliant development process

➢ General (non-secret) configuration data

➢ secrets, tokens, and certificates ➢ applications configurations

• Web App

• Azure Kubernetes Service

• containers ➢ Secrets management • Web App

• Azure Kubernetes Service

• containers

• Azure Key Vault

➢ Managing security and compliance in the pipeline

Session 11: Implement continuousintegration Manage code quality and security policies

➢ Monitor code quality

➢ Configure build to report on code coverage

➢ Automated test quality

➢ Testsuites and categories

➢ Monitor quality of tests

➢ Security analysistools

• SonarQube,

• White Source Bolt

• Open Web Application Security Project

Session 12: Implement a container build strategy

➢ create deployable images

• Docker

• Hub

• Azure Container Registry

• Docker multi-stage builds Session13: Implement a build strategy

➢ Design build triggers, tools, integrations, and workflow

➢ Hybrid build process

➢ Multi-agent builds

➢ Build tools and configuration (e.g. Azure Pipelines, Jenkins)

➢ set up an automated build workflow

Session 14: Implement continuous delivery Design a release strategy

➢ Release tools

➢ Identify and recommend release approvals and gates

➢ Measuring quality of release and release process

➢ Recommend strategy for release notes and documentation

➢ select appropriate deployment pattern

Session 15: Set up a release management workflow

➢ Automate inspection of health signalsfor release approvals by using release gates

➢ Configure automated integration and functional test execution

➢ Create a release pipeline

• Azure Kubernetes Service

• WebApp

➢ Create multi-phase release pipelines

➢ Integrate secrets with release pipeline

➢ Provision and configure environments

➢ Manage and modularize tasks and templates – task and variable groups

Session16: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

➢ Implement blue-green deployments

➢ Implement canary deployments ➢ Implement progressive exposure deployments

➢ Scale a release pipeline to deploy to multiple endpoints

• Deployment groups

• Azure Kubernetes Service

Session 17: Implement dependency management Design a dependency managementstrategy

➢ Artifact management tools and practices(Azure Artifacts, npm, Maven, Nuget)

➢ Abstract common packagesto enable sharing and reuse

➢ Inspect codebase to identify code dependenciesthat can be converted to packages

➢ Standardized package types and versions acrossthe solution

➢ Refactor existing build pipelinesto implement version strategy that publishes packages Session 18: Manage security and compliance

➢ Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards(e.g., GPLv3)

➢ Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating (e.g., Black Duck, White Source)

➢ Configure secure accessto package feeds

Session 19: Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

➢ Create nested resource templates ➢ Manage secretsin resource templates

➢ Provision Azure resources

➢ Recommend an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy

➢ Recommend appropriate technologies for configuration management

• ARM Templates

• Terraform

• Ansible

Session 20: Manage Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure

➢ Provision Azure Kubernetes Service – Terraform CLI

➢ Create deployment file for publishing to Azure Kubernetes Service – kubectl, Helm

➢ Develop a scaling plan[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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