Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training (AZ-400)

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. Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training (AZ-400) Benefits In this course, you will learn how 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. Prerequisites Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of the following: 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 Administration, consider taking Course 8542, Microsoft Azure Administrator Training (AZ-104). If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking Course 8538, Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Training (AZ-204). Exam Information Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam, part of the path towards the Microsoft role-based certification exam — Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert. AZ-400 Training Outline Learning Objectives 1 though 10 Module 1: Introduction to DevOps  This module explores the key areas organizations must apply to start their DevOps transformation Journey, change the team's mindset, and define timelines and goals.  By the end of this module, you'll 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  Module 2: Choose the right project  This module helps organizations decide on the projects to start applying the DevOps process and tools to minimize initial resistance.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  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 (KPIs)  Module 3: Describe team structures  This module explores agile development practices and helps define and configure teams and collaboration tools.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand agile practices and principles of agile development  Create a team and agile organizational structure  Identify ideal DevOps team members  Select and configure tools for collaboration  Module 4: Choose the DevOps tools  This module explores Azure DevOps and GitHub tools and helps organizations define their work management tool and licensing strategy.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  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  Module 5: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards  This module introduces you to GitHub Projects, GitHub Project Boards and Azure Boards. It explores ways to link Azure Boards and GitHub, configure GitHub Projects and Project views, and manage work with GitHub Projects.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards  Link Azure Boards and GitHub  Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards  Customize Project views  Module 6: Introduction to source control  This module introduces you to the basics of source control, exploring benefits and best practices.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand source control  Apply best practices for source control  Describe the benefits of using source control  Module 7: Describe types of source control systems  This module describes different source control systems, such as Git and TFVC and helps with the initial steps for Git utilization.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Apply source control practices in your development process  Explain the differences between centralized and distributed version control  Understand Git and TFVC  Develop using Git  Module 8: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub  This module introduces you to Azure Repos and GitHub and explores ways to migrate from TFVC to Git and work with GitHub Codespaces for development.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Describe Azure Repos and GitHub  Migrate from TFVC to Git  Work with GitHub Codespaces  Module 9: Structure your Git Repo  This module examines Git repositories structure, explains the differences between mono versus multiple repos, and helps you create a changelog.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand Git repositories  Implement mono repo or multiple repos  Explain how to structure Git Repos  Implement a change log  Module 10: Manage Git branches and workflows  This module explores Git branching types, concepts, and models for the continuous delivery process. It helps companies define their branching strategy and organization.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Describe Git branching workflows  Implement feature branches  Implement GitHub Flow  Fork a repo  Learning Objectives 11 though 20 Module 11: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos  This module presents pull requests for collaboration and code reviews using Azure DevOps and GitHub mobile for pull request approvals. It helps understand how pull requests work and configure them.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews  Give feedback using pull requests  Configure branch policies  Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals  Module 12: Identify technical debt  This module examines technical debt, complexity, quality metrics, and plans for effective code reviews and code quality validation.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Identify and manage technical debt  Integrate code quality tools  Plan code reviews  Describe complexity and quality metrics  Module 13: Explore Git hooks  This module describes Git hooks and their usage during development, implementation, and behavior.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand Git hooks  Identify when used Git hooks  Implement Git hooks for automation  Explain Git hooks' behavior  Module 14: Plan to foster inner source  This module explains using Git to foster inner sources across the organization and implement Fork and its workflows.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Use Git to foster inner source across the organization  Implement fork workflow  Choose between branches and forks  Share code between forks  Module 15: Manage Git repositories  This module explores how to work with large repositories, purge repository data and manage and automate release notes using GitHub.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand large Git repositories  Explain VFS for Git  Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)  Purge repository data  Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub  Module 16: Explore Azure Pipelines  This module introduces Azure Pipelines concepts and explains key terms and components of the tool, helping you decide your pipeline strategy and responsibilities.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Describe Azure Pipelines  Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components  Decide Pipeline automation responsibility  Understand Azure Pipeline key terms  Module 17: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools  This module explores the differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, details job types, and configures agent pools. Understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage their security.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents  Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents  Configure agent pools  Make the agents and pools secure  Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines  Module 18: Describe pipelines and concurrency  This module describes parallel jobs and how to estimate their usage. Also, it presents Azure Pipelines for open-source projects and explores Visual Designer and YAML pipelines.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Use and estimate parallel jobs  Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects  Use Visual Designer  Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML  Module 19: Explore continuous integration  This module details continuous integration practice and the pillars for implementing it in the development lifecycle, its benefits, and its properties.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Explain why continuous integration matters  Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines  Explain the benefits of continuous integration  Describe build properties  Module 20: Implement a pipeline strategy  This module describes pipeline strategies, configuring them, implementing multi-agent builds, and what source controls Azure Pipelines supports.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Define a build strategy  Explain and configure demands  Implement multi-agent builds  Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines  Learning Objectives 21 though 30 Module 21: Integrate with Azure Pipelines  This module details Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure, templates, YAML resources, and how to use multiple repositories in your pipeline.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure  Detail templates and YAML resources  Implement and use multiple repositories  Module 22: Introduction to GitHub Actions  In this module, you will learn what GitHub Actions, action flow, and its elements are. Understand what events are, explore jobs and runners, and how to read console output from actions.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Explain GitHub Actions and workflows  Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows  Describe Events, Jobs and Runners  Examine output and release management for actions  Module 23: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions  This module details continuous integration using GitHub Actions and describes environment variables, artifacts, best practices, and how to secure your pipeline using encrypted variables and secrets.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions  Use environment variables  Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags  Create and manage secrets  Module 24: Design a container build strategy  This module helps you plan a container build strategy, explains containers and their structure, and introduces Docker, microservices, Azure Container Registry, and related services.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Design a container strategy  Work with Docker Containers  Create an Azure Container Registry  Explain Docker microservices and containers  Module 25: Introduction to continuous delivery  This module introduces continuous delivery concepts and their implementation in a traditional IT development cycle.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Explain continuous delivery (CD)  Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle  Understand releases and deployment  Identify project opportunities to apply CD  Module 26: Create a release pipeline  This module describes Azure Pipelines capabilities, build and release tasks.  By the end of this module, you'll 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  Module 27: Explore release recommendations  This module explores the critical release strategy recommendations organizations must consider when designing automated deployments. It explains how to define components of a release pipeline and artifact sources, create approves, and configure release gates.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  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  Module 28: Provision and test environments  This module details target environment provisioning, service connections creation process, and test infrastructure setup. Learn how to configure functional test automation and run availability tests.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  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  Module 29: Manage and modularize tasks and templates  This module describes the creation of task and variable groups and using release variables and stage variables in your pipeline.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Use and manage task and variable groups  Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline  Use variables in release pipelines  Module 30: Automate inspection of health  This module describes how to automate the inspection of health events, configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub, set up service hooks to monitor pipelines, measure the quality of your release process, and detail release gates for quality purposes. You'll examine release management tools and details about them.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement automated inspection of health  Create and configure events  Configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub  Create service hooks to monitor the pipeline  Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both  Choose a release management tool  Learning Objectives 31 though 40 Module 31: Introduction to deployment patterns  This module introduces deployment patterns and explains microservices architecture to help improve the deployment cycle and examine classical and modern deployment patterns.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to: Describe deployment patterns  Explain microservices architecture  Understand classical and modern deployment patterns  Plan and design your architecture  Module 32: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles  This module describes the blue-green deployment process and introduces feature toggle techniques to implement in the development process.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Explain deployment strategies  Implement blue green deployment  Understand deployment slots  Implement and manage feature toggles  Module 33: Implement canary releases and dark launching  This module describes deployment strategies around canary releases and dark launching and examines traffic managers.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Describe deployment strategies  Implement canary release  Explain traffic manager  Understand dark launching  Module 34: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment  This module introduces A/B test and progressive exposure deployment concepts and explores CI/CD with deployment rings -- ring-based deployment.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement progressive exposure deployment  Implement A/B testing  Implement CI/CD with deployment rings  Identify the best deployment strategy  Module 35: Integrate with identity management systems  This module describes the integration with GitHub and single sign-on (SSO) for authentication, service principals, and managed service identities.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems  Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)  Understand and create a service principal  Create managed service identities  Module 36: Manage application configuration data  This module explores ways to rethink application configuration data and the separation of concerns method. Explore Azure App Configuration, details Key-value pairs, App Configuration feature management, and integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Rethink application configuration data  Understand the separation of concerns  Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines  Manage secrets, tokens and certificates  Describe Azure App Configuration  Understand Key-value pairs  Understand app configuration feature management  Implement application configuration  Module 37: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management  This module describes key infrastructure concepts as code and environment deployment creation and configuration. Also, understand the imperative, declarative, and idempotent configuration and how it applies to your company.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand how to deploy your environment  Plan your environment configuration  Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration  Explain idempotent configuration  Module 38: Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates  This module explores Azure Resource Manager templates and their components, details dependencies, and modularized templates with secrets.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates  Understand Azure Resource Manager templates and template components  Manage dependencies and secrets in templates  Organize and modularize templates  Module 39: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI  This module explains Azure CLI to create Azure resources, run templates, and detail Azure CLI commands.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Create Azure resources using Azure CLI  Understand and work with Azure CLI  Run templates using Azure CLI  Explains Azure CLI commands   Module 40: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps  This module describes Azure Automation with Azure DevOps, using runbooks, webhooks, and PowerShell workflows. You'll learn how to create and manage automation for your environment.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement automation with Azure DevOps  Create and manage runbooks  Create webhooks  Create and run a workflow runbook and PowerShell workflows  Learning Objectives 41 though 50 Module 41: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)  This module describes Desired State Configuration (DSC) and its components for implementation. You can exercise how to import, compile and automate your environment creation and use DSC for Linux automation on Azure.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)  Describe Azure Automation State Configuration  Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure  Plan for hybrid management  Module 42: Implement Bicep  This module explains Bicep and how it integrates with different tools, such as Azure CLI and Visual Studio Code, for environment deployment configuration.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Learn what Bicep is  Learn how to install it and create a smooth authoring experience  Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure  Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code  Module 43: Introduction to Secure DevOps  This module introduces DevSecOps concepts, SQL injection attacks, threat modeling, and security for continuous integration.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Identify SQL injection attack  Understand DevSecOps  Implement pipeline security  Understand threat modeling   Module 44: Implement open-source software  This module explores open-source software and corporate concerns with software components. Also, it explains standard open-source licenses, license implications, and ratings.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement open-source software  Explain corporate concerns for open-source components  Describe open-source licenses  Understand the license implications and ratings  Module 45: Software Composition Analysis  This module explains Composition Analysis, inspecting and validating code bases for compliance, integrating with security tools, and integrating with Azure Pipelines.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Inspect and validate code bases for compliance  Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps  Implement pipeline security validation  Interpret alerts from scanning tools  Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts and security  Module 46: Static Analyzers  This module introduces the static analyzers SonarCloud and CodeQL in GitHub.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand Static Analyzers  Work with SonarCloud  Work with CodeQL in GitHub  Interpret alerts from scanning tools  Module 47: OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers  This module explores OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers for penetration testing, results, and bugs.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Understand OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers  Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices  Understand compliance for code bases  Module 48: Security Monitoring and Governance  This module describes security monitoring and governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its usage scenarios, Azure Policies, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and security practices related to the tools.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud  Understand Azure policies  Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints  Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity  Module 49: Explore package dependencies  This module explores dependency management concepts and helps to identify project dependencies. You will learn to decompose your system, identify dependencies, and package componentization.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Define dependency management strategy  Identify dependencies  Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management  Scan your codebase for dependencies  Module 50: Understand package management  This module describes package feeds, familiar public package sources, and how to create and publish packages.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement package management  Manage package feed  Consume and create packages  Publish packages  Learning Objectives 51 though 58 Module 51: Migrate, consolidate and secure artifacts  This module details package migration, consolidation, and configuration to secure access to package feeds and artifact repositories.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Identify artifact repositories  Migrate and integrate artifact repositories  Secure package feeds  Understand roles, permissions and authentication  Module 52: Implement a versioning strategy  This module explains versioning strategies for packaging, best practices for versioning, and package promotion.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement a versioning strategy  Promote packages  Push packages from the pipeline  Describe semantics and explore best practices for versioning  Module 53: Introduction to GitHub Packages  This module introduces you to GitHub Packages. It explores ways to control permissions and visibility, publish, install, delete and restore packages using GitHub.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Publish packages  Install packages  Delete and restore packages  Configure access control and visibility  Module 54: Implement tools to track usage and flow  This module introduces you to continuous feedback practices and tools to track usage and flow, such as Azure Logs Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Application Insights.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Implement tools to track feedback  Plan for continuous monitoring  Implement Application Insights  Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)  Module 55: Develop monitor and status dashboards  This module explains steps to develop monitoring with Azure Dashboards, work with View Designer and Azure Monitor, and create Azure Monitor Workbooks. Also, explore tools to support monitoring with Power BI.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Configure Azure Dashboards  Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor  Create Azure Monitor Workbooks  Monitor with Power BI  Module 56: Share knowledge within teams  This module helps design the process for Application Insights and explores telemetry and monitoring tools and technologies.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Automate application analytics  Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search  Integrate telemetry  Implement monitoring tools and technologies  Module 57: Design processes to automate application analytics  This module helps design processes for Application Insights and explores telemetry and monitoring tools and technologies.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Automate application analytics  Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search  Integrate telemetry  Implement monitoring tools and technologies  Module 58: Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture  This module examines alerts and blameless retrospectives and creates a just culture. It helps improve application performance, reduces meaningless and non-actionable alerts and explains server response-time degradation.  By the end of this module, you'll be able to:  Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture  Improve application performance  Explain server response time degradation  Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts