AZ-400 - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Overview

Duration: 5 days

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.

Objectives

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
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 organizational 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 organization
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 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
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 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

Content

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

Lessons

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

Lessons

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

Lab : Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos

Module 3: Managing Technical Debt

Lessons

Identifying Technical Debt
Knowledge Sharing within Teams
Modernizing Development Environments with Codespaces

Lab : Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis

Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps

Lessons

How to Structure Your Git Repo
Git Branching Workflows
Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
Why Care About Git Hooks
Fostering Inner Source
Managing Git Repositories

Lab : Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos

Module 5: Configuring Azure Pipelines

Lessons

The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
Azure Pipelines
Evaluate use of Hosted versus Self-Hosted Agents
Agent Pools
Pipelines and Concurrency
Azure DevOps and Open-Source Projects (Public Projects)
Azure Pipelines YAML versus Visual Designer

Lab : Configuring Agent Pools and Understanding Pipeline Styles

Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines

Lessons

Continuous Integration Overview
Implementing a Build Strategy
Integration with Azure Pipelines
Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
Set Up Self-Hosted Agents

Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines

Module 7: Managing Application Configuration and Secrets

Lessons

Introduction to Security
Implement a Secure Development Process
Rethinking Application Configuration Data
Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates
Integrating with Identity Management Systems
Implementing Application Configuration

Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

Module 8: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

Lessons

GitHub Actions
Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
Securing Secrets for GitHub Actions

Lab : GitHub Actions Continuous Integration

Module 9: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lessons

Packaging Dependencies
Package Management
Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
Package Security
Implementing a Versioning Strategy

Lab : Package Management with Azure Artifacts

Module 10: Designing a Release Strategy

Lessons

Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Release Strategy Recommendations
Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
Choosing the Right Release Management Tool

Lab : Controlling Deployments using Release Gates

Lab : Creating a Release Dashboard

Module 11: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines

Lessons

Create a Release Pipeline
Provision and Configure Environments
Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
Automate Inspection of Health

Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML

Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests

Module 12: Implementing an Appropriate Deployment Pattern

Lessons

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: Managing Infrastructure and Configuration using Azure Tools

Lessons

Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
Azure Automation with DevOps
Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

Module 14: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools Available with Azure

Lessons

Chef
Puppet
Ansible
Terraform

Lab : Automating Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Lab : Deploying Apps with Chef on Azure

Lab : Deploy App with Puppet on Azure

Lab : Ansible with Azure

Module 15: Managing Containers using DockerLessons

Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Implementing Docker Multi-Stage Builds

Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

Module 16: Creating and Managing Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

Lessons

Azure Kubernetes Service
Kubernetes Tooling
Integrating AKS with Pipelines

Lab : Deploying a Multi-Container Application to Azure Kubernetes Service

Module 17: Implementing Feedback for Development Teams

Lessons

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 with Application Insights

Module 18: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms

Lessons

Site Reliability Engineering
Design Practices to Measure End-User Satisfaction
Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
Managing Alerts
Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture

Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

Module 19: Implementing Security in DevOps Projects

Lessons

Security in the Pipeline
Azure Security Center

Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Module 20: Validating Code Bases for Compliance

Lessons

Open-Source Software
Managing Security and Compliance Policies
Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans

Lab : Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps

Audience

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

This Microsoft Official Course prepares students for the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification exam.

The AZ-400 exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: develop an instrumentation strategy; develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy; develop a security and compliance plan; manage source control; facilitate communication and collaboration; define and implement continuous integration; and define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy.

Prerequisites

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 organization that delivers software.

If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following resources:

Free online: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/)
Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals (https://trainocate.com/courses/Microsoft/az-900t01)

If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking:

Instructor-led courses: AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator (https://trainocate.com/courses/Microsoft/az-104t00) and AZ-010: Azure Administration for AWS SysOps (https://trainocate.com/courses/Microsoft/az-010t00)

If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking:

Free online: Create serverless applications (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/create-serverless-applications/)
Instructor-led course: AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (https://trainocate.com/courses/Microsoft/az-204t00) and AZ-020: Microsoft Azure Solutions for AWS Developers (https://trainocate.com/courses/Microsoft/az-020t00)