AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

• 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

Hands-on:

• Version Controlling with Git

• How to Structure your Git Repo
• Git Branching Workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
• Why care about GitHooks
• Fostering Inner Source

Hands-on:

• Code Review with Pull Requests

• Packaging Dependencies
• Package Management
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

Hands-on:

• Updating Packages

• 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

Hands-on:

• Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
• Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
• Deploying a Multi-Container Application

• 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

Hands-on:

• Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

• Managing Code Quality
• Managing Security Policies

Hands-on:

• Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Hands-on:

• Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

• Package security
• Open-source software
• Integrating license and vulnerability scans
• Implement a versioning strategy (git version)

Hands-on:

• Manage Open-Source Security and License with WhiteSource

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release strategy recommendations
• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing a deployment pattern
• Choosing the right release management tool

• 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

Hands-on:

• Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML
• Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
• Setting up and Running Functional Tests
• Using Azure Monitor as release gate
• Creating a release Dashboard

• Introduction to Deployment Patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Feature Toggles
• Canary Releases
• Dark Launching
• AB Testing
• Progressive Exposure Deployment

Hands-on:

• Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

• 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

Hands-on:

• Monitoring Application Performance

• 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

• 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

Hands-on:

• Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

• 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

Hands-on:

• Azure Automation – IaaS or PaaS deployment

• Azure Kubernetes Service

Hands-on:

• Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service

• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

Hands-on:

• Infrastructure as Code
• Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
• Azure security Center

Hands-on:

• Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

• 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

Hands-on:

• Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

• 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