OVERVIEW DevOps on

Duration: 2 days

This course provides basic knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps
Azure
practices of continuous integration and continuous delivery. Students will
learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, implement continuous
integration, design a release strategy, and set up a release management
workflow

AUDIENCE

Students in this course are interested in DevOps continuous integration

processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification
exam

CERTIFICATION

A part of Exam (2 days) AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft

DevOps Solutions
The remaining of Exam needs to be learnt in 5 days

PREREQUISITES

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:

• Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS,

and IaaS implementations. (Azure Fundamentals)
• Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven
expertise in at least one of these areas. (Azure Administrator)
Designing and
• Version control, Agile software development, and core software Implementing
development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an
organization that delivers software. (Azure Developer) Microsoft DevOps
Solutions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Understand Azure Serverless computing;
• Create an App service plan and a Web app
• Monitor Azure infrastructure
• Define Site Reliability Engineering
• Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Describe Azure Repos and migrate from GitHub
• Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and
other tooling solutions
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• 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 an infrastructure and configuration strategy and
appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application
infrastructure
• Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source
software
• Inspect open-source software packages for security and license
compliance
CONTENT
Module 1: Azure Cloud Services
Lesson
• Describe core Azure concepts
• Introduction to app center
• Serverless Computing
Lab: Create an App Service from Github project
Module 2: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms
Lesson
• What is SRE and why does it matter
• Design Practices to Measure End-User Satisfaction
• Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
• Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
Lab: Integration Azure DevOps with MS Teams
Lab: Managing Alerts
Module 3: Planning for DevOps
Lesson
• DevOps Strategy Map: A Balanced Scorecard Framework
• Project Selection, Team Structures
Lab: Agile planning with Azure Boards
Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps
Lesson
• Getting Start with Source Control
• Repository policies
Lab: Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos
 CONTENT
CONTENT
Module 5: Manage Technical Debt
Lesson
• Identify Technical Debt
• Knowledge Sharing with Teams
Lab: Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis
Module 6: Configuring Azure Pipelines
Lesson
• The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Agent Pools
• Pipelines and Concurrency
Module 7: Implementing Continuous Integration
using Azure Pipelines
Lesson
• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy
• Integration with Azure Pipelines
Lab: Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Module 8: Designing a Release Strategy
Lesson
• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy
Module 9: Implementing Continuous Deployment using
Azure Pipelines
Lesson
• Create a Release Pipeline
• Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
Lab :•Configuring
Building Pipelines
a High Quality Release
as Code pipeline
with YAML
• Choosing a deployment pattern
Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests
• Choosing the right release management tool
Module 10: Managing Application Configuration and Secrets
Lesson
• Introduction to Security
• Implement a Secure Development Process
• Rethinking Application Configuration Data
• Implementing Application Configuration
Lab: Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
Module 11: Implementing Feedback for Development Teams
Lesson
• Implement Tools to Track System Usage, Feature Usage, and Flow
• Develop Monitoring and Status Dashboards
• Integrate and Configure Ticketing Systems
Lab: Monitoring Application Performance with Application Insights
Module 12: Validating Code Bases for Compliance
Lesson
• Open-Source Software
• Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans
Lab: Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps