Course Overview
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.
You could also consider the below Applied Skill as a security-focused component alongside your AZ-400 course to validate security in DevOps Pipelines. For additional specialization you can also take the Applied Skills assessment:
Who should attend
Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Course Content
- Introduction to DevOps
- Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Manage Git branches and workflows
- Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
- Explore Git hooks
- Plan foster inner source
- Manage Git repositories
- Identify technical debt
- Explore Azure Pipelines
- Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
- Describe pipelines and concurrency
- Implement a pipeline strategy
- Integrate with Azure Pipelines
- Introduction to GitHub Actions
- Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
- Design a container build strategy
- Create a release pipeline
- Explore release recommendations
- Provision and test environments
- Manage and modularize tasks and templates
- Automate inspection of health
- 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
- Integrate with identity management systems
- Manage application configuration data
- Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Implement Bicep
- Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
- Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
- Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Introduction to Secure DevOps
- Implement open-source software
- Software Composition Analysis
- Security Monitoring and Governance
- Explore package dependencies
- Understand package management
- Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts
- Implement a versioning strategy
- Introduction to GitHub Packages
- Implement tools to track usage and flow
- Develop monitor and status dashboards
- Share knowledge within teams
- Design processes to automate application analytics
- Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture