Microsoft Azure

Designing and Implementing DevOps Solutions

About the Course: Designing and Implementing 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 artefacts, 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 optimise feedback mechanisms

Audience profile

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, 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 organisational 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 organisational 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 organisation
  • 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
  • Define Site Reliability Engineering
  • Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyse 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 organisational security and compliance policies
  • Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
  • Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
  • Successful 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 organisation that delivers software. If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following resources:
    • MS-AZ900T00: Azure Fundamentals
    • MS-AZ104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator
    • MS-AZ204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

4 Days

Online/Instructor Led

MS-AZ400T00

Modules

  • Introduction to DevOps
  • Choose the right project
  • Describe team structures
  • Migrate to DevOps
  • Introduction to source control
  • Describe types of source control systems
  • Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
  • Windows PowerShell overview
  • Understand Windows PowerShell command syntax.
  • Find commands and get help in Windows PowerShell
  • Configuring Windows PowerShell, and finding and running commands
  • Configuring the Windows PowerShell console application
  • Configuring the Windows PowerShell ISE application
  • Finding and running Windows PowerShell commands
  • Using About files
  • After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe key features of Windows PowerShell, and open and configure it.
  • Discover, learn, and run Windows PowerShell commands.
  • Find Windows PowerShell commands for performing specific tasks.
  • Structure your Git Repo
  • Manage Git branches and workflows
  • Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
  • Explore Git hooks
  • Plan fostering inner source
  • Manage Git repositories
  • 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
  • Introduction to continuous delivery
  • Explore release strategy recommendations
  • Build a high-quality release pipeline
  • 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
  • Create a release pipeline
  • Configure and provision environments
  • Manage and modularize tasks and templates
  • Automate inspection of health
  • Introduction to security development process
  • Manage application configuration data
  • Integrate with identity management systems
  • Implement application configuration
  • 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)
  • Introduction to Chef and Puppet
  • Implement Ansible
  • Implement Terraform
  • Explore package dependencies
  • Understand package management
  • Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts
  • Implement a versioning strategy
  • Design a container build strategy
  • Implement Docker multi-stage builds
  • Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Explore Kubernetes tooling
  • Integrate AKS with Pipelines
  • Implement tools to track usage and flow
  • Implement route for mobile application crash report data
  • Develop monitor and status dashboards
  • Share knowledge within teams
  • Explore SRE and design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
  • Design processes to capture and analyse user feedback
  • Design processes to automate application analytics
  • Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture
  • Understand security in the Pipeline
  • Introduction to Azure Security Centre
  • Implement open-source software
  • Manage anti-malware and anti-spam policies
  • Integrate license and vulnerability scans
  • Identify technical debt

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