Course Name

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Course Introduction

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.

Course Delivery Method

Our courses have flexible delivery options:

In-person classroom training at the Impactful training
facilities
- Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town
Virtual instructor-led training
Nationally: on-site at the client

Course Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

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

Course Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

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:
MS-AZ900T00: Azure Fundamentals
MS-AZ104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator
MS-AZ204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you 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

Course Content

Module 1: Get Started on a DevOps Transformation Journey
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab :
      - Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
      - Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
  - Identify teams to implement the process
  - Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
  - Plan and define timelines for goals
  - Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
  - Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
  - Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
  - Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
  - Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
  - Create a team and agile organizational structure
Module 2: Work with Git for Enterprise DevOps
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Understand Git repositories
  - Implement mono repo or multiple repos
  - Explain how to structure Git Repos
  - Implement a change log
  - Describe Git branching workflows
  - Implement feature branches
  - Implement GitFlow
  - Fork a repo
  - Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
  - Give feedback using pull requests
Module 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Configuring agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
- After completing this module, you will be able to:
  - Describe Azure Pipelines
  - Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
  - Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
  - Understand Azure Pipeline key terms
  - Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
  - Install and configure Azure pipelines Agents
  - Configure agent pools
  - Make the agents and pools secure
  - Use and estimate parallel jobs
Module 4: Design and Implement a Release Strategy
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Controlling deployments using Release Gates
      - Creating a release dashboard
      - Feature flag management with Launch Darkly and Azure DevOps
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Explain continuous delivery (CD)
  - Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
  - Understand releases and deployment
  - Identify project opportunities to apply CD
  - Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
  - Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
  - Create a release approval plan
  - Implement release gates
  - Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Module 5: Implement a Secure Continuous Deployment Using Azure Pipelines
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
      - Setting up and running functional tests
      - Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
  - Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
  - Implement release jobs
  - Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
  - Provision and configure target environment
  - Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
  - Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
  - Setup test infrastructure
  - Use and manage task and variable groups
Module 6: Manage Infrastructure as Code Using Azure, DSC, and Third-Party Tools
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Deployments using Azure Resource Manager templates
      - Ansible with Azure
      - Automating infrastructure deployments in the cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Understand how to deploy your environment
  - Plan your environment configuration
  - Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
  - Explain idempotent configuration
  - Create Azure resources using ARM templates
  - Understand ARM templates and template components
  - Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
  - Organize and modularize templates
  - Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
Module 7: Design and Implement a Dependency Management Strategy
- Lessons:
  - Explore package dependencies
  - Understand package management
  - Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts
  - Implement a versioning strategy
    - Lab:
      - Package management with Azure Artifacts
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Define dependency management strategy
  - Identify dependencies
  - Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
  - Scan your codebase for dependencies
  - Implement package management
  - Manage package feed
  - Consume and create packages
  - Publish packages
  - Identify artifact repositories
  - Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
Module 8: Create and Manage Containers Using Docker and Kubernetes
- Lessons:
  - Design a container build strategy
  - Implement Docker multi-stage builds
  - Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  - Explore Kubernetes tooling
  - Integrate AKS with Pipelines
    - Lab:
      - Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service web apps
      - Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Services
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Design a container strategy
  - Work with Docker Containers
  - Create an Azure Container Registry
  - Explain Docker microservices and containers
  - Implement multi-stage builds with Docker
  - Understand build patterns
  - Manage multiple projects and solutions
  - Add Docker support to an existing application
  - Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  - Deploy and connect to an AKS cluster
Module 9: Implement Continuous Feedback
- Lessons:
  - 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 analyze user feedback
  - Design processes to automate application analytics
  - Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture
    - Lab:
      - Integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
      - Monitoring application performance with Application Insights
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Implement tools to track feedback
  - Plan for continuous monitoring
  - Implement Application Insights
  - Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)
  - Implement routing for mobile applications
  - Configure App Center Diagnostics
  - Configure alerts
  - Create a bug tracker
  - Configure Azure Dashboards
  - Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
Module 10: Implement Security and Validate Code Bases for Compliance
- Lessons:
  - Understand security in the Pipeline
  - Introduction to Azure Security Center
  - Implement open-source software
  - Manage anti-malware and anti-spam policies
  - Integrate license and vulnerability scans
  - Identify technical debt
    - Lab:
      - Implement security and compliance in Azure DevOps Pipelines
      - Managing technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Integrate security tools like WhiteSource, Micro Focus, Checkmarx and Veracode with Azure DevOps
  - Implement pipeline security
  - Use Secure DevOps kit for Azure (AzSK)
  - Configure Azure Security Center
  - Understand Azure policies
  - Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints
  - Work with Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
  - Implement open-source software
  - Explain corporate concerns for open-source components

Course Associated Exam and Certification

This course prepares students to write Exam AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

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Course Introduction

Course Delivery Method

Our courses have flexible delivery options:

In-person classroom training at the Impactful training
facilities
- Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town
Virtual instructor-led training
Nationally: on-site at the client

Course Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

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

Course Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

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:
MS-AZ900T00: Azure Fundamentals
MS-AZ104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator
MS-AZ204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you 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

Course Content

Module 1: Get Started on a DevOps Transformation Journey
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab :
      - Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
      - Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
  - Identify teams to implement the process
  - Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
  - Plan and define timelines for goals
  - Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
  - Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
  - Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
  - Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
  - Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
  - Create a team and agile organizational structure
Module 2: Work with Git for Enterprise DevOps
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Understand Git repositories
  - Implement mono repo or multiple repos
  - Explain how to structure Git Repos
  - Implement a change log
  - Describe Git branching workflows
  - Implement feature branches
  - Implement GitFlow
  - Fork a repo
  - Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
  - Give feedback using pull requests
Module 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Configuring agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
- After completing this module, you will be able to:
  - Describe Azure Pipelines
  - Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
  - Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
  - Understand Azure Pipeline key terms
  - Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
  - Install and configure Azure pipelines Agents
  - Configure agent pools
  - Make the agents and pools secure
  - Use and estimate parallel jobs
Module 4: Design and Implement a Release Strategy
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Controlling deployments using Release Gates
      - Creating a release dashboard
      - Feature flag management with Launch Darkly and Azure DevOps
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Explain continuous delivery (CD)
  - Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
  - Understand releases and deployment
  - Identify project opportunities to apply CD
  - Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
  - Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
  - Create a release approval plan
  - Implement release gates
  - Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Module 5: Implement a Secure Continuous Deployment Using Azure Pipelines
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
      - Setting up and running functional tests
      - Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
  - Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
  - Implement release jobs
  - Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
  - Provision and configure target environment
  - Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
  - Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
  - Setup test infrastructure
  - Use and manage task and variable groups
Module 6: Manage Infrastructure as Code Using Azure, DSC, and Third-Party Tools
- Lessons:
  - 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
    - Lab:
      - Deployments using Azure Resource Manager templates
      - Ansible with Azure
      - Automating infrastructure deployments in the cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Understand how to deploy your environment
  - Plan your environment configuration
  - Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
  - Explain idempotent configuration
  - Create Azure resources using ARM templates
  - Understand ARM templates and template components
  - Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
  - Organize and modularize templates
  - Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
Module 7: Design and Implement a Dependency Management Strategy
- Lessons:
  - Explore package dependencies
  - Understand package management
  - Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts
  - Implement a versioning strategy
    - Lab:
      - Package management with Azure Artifacts
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Define dependency management strategy
  - Identify dependencies
  - Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
  - Scan your codebase for dependencies
  - Implement package management
  - Manage package feed
  - Consume and create packages
  - Publish packages
  - Identify artifact repositories
  - Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
Module 8: Create and Manage Containers Using Docker and Kubernetes
- Lessons:
  - Design a container build strategy
  - Implement Docker multi-stage builds
  - Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  - Explore Kubernetes tooling
  - Integrate AKS with Pipelines
    - Lab:
      - Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service web apps
      - Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Services
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Design a container strategy
  - Work with Docker Containers
  - Create an Azure Container Registry
  - Explain Docker microservices and containers
  - Implement multi-stage builds with Docker
  - Understand build patterns
  - Manage multiple projects and solutions
  - Add Docker support to an existing application
  - Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  - Deploy and connect to an AKS cluster
Module 9: Implement Continuous Feedback
- Lessons:
  - 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 analyze user feedback
  - Design processes to automate application analytics
  - Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture
    - Lab:
      - Integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
      - Monitoring application performance with Application Insights
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Implement tools to track feedback
  - Plan for continuous monitoring
  - Implement Application Insights
  - Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)
  - Implement routing for mobile applications
  - Configure App Center Diagnostics
  - Configure alerts
  - Create a bug tracker
  - Configure Azure Dashboards
  - Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
Module 10: Implement Security and Validate Code Bases for Compliance
- Lessons:
  - Understand security in the Pipeline
  - Introduction to Azure Security Center
  - Implement open-source software
  - Manage anti-malware and anti-spam policies
  - Integrate license and vulnerability scans
  - Identify technical debt
    - Lab:
      - Implement security and compliance in Azure DevOps Pipelines
      - Managing technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
  - Integrate security tools like WhiteSource, Micro Focus, Checkmarx and Veracode with Azure DevOps
  - Implement pipeline security
  - Use Secure DevOps kit for Azure (AzSK)
  - Configure Azure Security Center
  - Understand Azure policies
  - Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints
  - Work with Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
  - Implement open-source software
  - Explain corporate concerns for open-source components

Course Exam And Certification

This course prepares students to write Exam AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

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