Design and Implement Microsoft DevOps Solutions
(4 days)
Course Description
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.
Learning Objectives
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DevOps Strategy & Organizational Transformation: Plan agile transformations, define project KPIs, and design comprehensive strategies for tool integration, licensing, authentication, end-to-end traceability, and hybrid environment integration.
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Source Control & Code Quality: Implement advanced Git workflows (via Azure Repos or GitHub) using branching, pull requests, and hooks to foster collaboration (inner source) while proactively managing code quality and technical debt with tools like SonarCloud.
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Continuous Integration (CI) Pipelines: Configure Azure Pipelines and agents to successfully implement continuous integration and automate the software build process.
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Observability: Establish a "just culture" with blameless retrospectives, automate application analytics, measure end-user feedback, and refine alert management.
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Infrastructure Strategy & DevSecOps: Define infrastructure and configuration strategies while enforcing compliance and security. This includes managing organizational policies and integrating automated security, license, and open-source vulnerability scanning directly into your deployment pipelines.
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.
Prerequisites
- Understanding of DevOps principles and practices.
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps or GitHub for version control and CI/CD.
- Basic knowledge of application monitoring concepts.
- Experience with Azure services and the Azure portal.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation
- Understanding of Azure DevOps pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle and version control systems.
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing concepts and Azure services.
- Understanding of application security fundamentals.
Course Outline
Module 1: Development for enterprise DevOps
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Introduction to DevOps
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Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
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Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
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Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
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Explore Git hooks
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Plan to foster inner source
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Manage and configure repositories
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Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
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Identify technical debt
Module 2: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
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Explore Azure Pipelines
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Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
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Describe pipelines and concurrency
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Design and implement a pipeline strategy
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Integrate with Azure Pipelines
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Introduction to GitHub Actions
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Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
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Design a container build strategy
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Understand Dockerfile core concepts
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Examine multi-stage Dockerfiles
Module 3: Design and implement a release strategy
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Create a Release Pipeline
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Explore release strategy recommendations
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Explore GitOps release strategy and recommendations
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Configure and Provision Environments
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Exercise – Set up service connections
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Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
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Automate inspection of health
Module 4: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines
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Introduction to deployment patterns
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Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
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Implement canary releases and dark launching
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Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
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Integrate with identity management systems
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Manage application configuration data
Module 5: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
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Explore Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
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Create Azure Resources by using Azure Resource Manager templates
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Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
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Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
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Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
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Implement Bicep
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Exercise – Create Bicep templates
Module 6: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance
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Introduction to Secure DevOps
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Understand DevSecOps
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Explore CodeQL in GitHub
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Implement open-source software
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Software Composition Analysis
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Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
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Security monitoring and governance
Module 7: Design and implement a dependency management strategy
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Explore package dependencies
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Understand package management
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Migrate, consolidate, and secure artifacts
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Implement a versioning strategy
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Introduction to GitHub Packages
Module 8: Implement continuous feedback
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Implement Tools to Track Usage and Flow
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Develop monitor and status dashboards
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Share knowledge within teams
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Design processes to automate application analytics
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Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives, and a just culture
