AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students 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. *** NOTE: This class also available in On-Demand, eLearning Format *** Too busy to attend this class during the work day? Consider the Microsoft On-Demand, self-study version of this course. Watch expert lectures and demonstrations, work with hands-on labs, and study at your own pace. For details on this economical alternative format, go to: Microsoft On-Demand: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

Module 1: Planning for DevOps Transformation Planning Project Selection Team Structures Migrating to Azure DevOps Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards Module 2: Getting started with Source Control 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 Authenticating to Git in Azure Repos Lab : Version Controlling with Git Module 3: Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps How to Structure your Git Repo Git Branching Workflows Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos Why care about GitHooks Fostering Inner Source Lab : Code Review with Pull Requests Module 4: Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy Packaging Dependencies Package Management Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts Lab : Updating Packages Module 5: Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines The concept of pipelines in DevOps Azure Pipelines Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents Agent Pools Pipelines and Concurrency Azure DevOps and Open Source Projects (Public Projects) Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer Continuous Integration Overview Implementing a Build Strategy Integration with Azure Pipelines Integrate External Source Control with Azure Pipelines Set Up Private Agents Analyze and Integrate Docker Multi-Stage Builds Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines Lab : Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines Lab : Deploying a Multi-Container Application Module 6: Managing Application Config and Secrets Introduction to Security Implement secure and compliant development process Rethinking application config data Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies Managing Code Quality Managing Security Policies Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud Module 8: Implementing a Container Build Strategy Implementing a Container Build Strategy Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure Module 9: Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance Package security Open source software Integrating license and vulnerability scans Implement a versioning strategy (git version) Lab : Manage Open Source Security and License with WhiteSource Module 10: Design a Release Strategy Introduction to Continuous Delivery Release strategy recommendations Building a High-Quality Release pipeline Choosing a deployment pattern Choosing the right release management tool Module 11: Set up a Release Management Workflow Create a Release Pipeline Provision and Configure Environments Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation Automate Inspection of Health Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML Lab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gate Lab : Creating a release Dashboard Module 12: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern 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 Module 13: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams 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 Module 14: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy Introduction to Mobile DevOps Introduction to Visual Studio App Center Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups Manage target UI test device sets Provision tester devices for deployment Create public and private distribution groups Module 15: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Azure Automation with DevOps Additional Automation Tools Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates Module 16: Azure Deployment Models and Services Deployment Modules and Options Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services Serverless and HPC Computer Services Azure Service Fabric Lab : Azure Automation - IaaS or PaaS deployment Module 17: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure Azure Kubernetes Service Lab : Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service Module 18: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure Chef Puppet Ansible Terraform Lab : Infrastructure as Code Lab : Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines Module 19: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps Azure security Center Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline Module 20: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms The inner loop Continuous Experimentation mindset Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback Design process to automate application analytics Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams Module 21: Optimize feedback mechanisms Site Reliability Engineering Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts Analyze alerts to establish a baseline Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture