Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions (AZ-400)

À qui s'adresse la formation?

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

Niveau atteint

Avancé

Durée

5,00 jour(s)

Langues(s) de prestation

Prochaine session

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Prérequis

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.

Objectifs

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.

Contenu

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

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

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the benefits of using Source Control
Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
Migrate from TFVC to Git

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
Build organizational knowledge on code quality

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain why continuous integration matters
Implement continuous integration using 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage application configuration and secrets
Integrate Azure Key Vault with a pipeline

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
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Recommend artifact management tools and practices
Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
Migrate and consolidate artifacts
Migrate and integrate source control measures

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Define the components of a release pipeline
Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
Choose a release management tool

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

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
Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using alerts, service hooks, and reports

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe deployment patterns
Implement Blue Green Deployment
Implement Canary Release
Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles.
Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

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
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform

Module 15: Managing Containers using Docker

Lessons

Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Implementing Docker Multi-Stage Builds

Lab: Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers
Implement containers using Docker
Implement Docker multi-stage builds

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
Configure crash report integration for client applications
Implement routing for client application crash report data
Develop monitoring and status dashboards
Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure