Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

Module 1: Get started on a DevOps transformation journey

• Introduction to DevOps
• Choose the right project
• Describe team structures
• Migrate to DevOps
• Introduction to source control
• Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
• Lab: Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
• Lab: Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos

Module 2: Work with Git for enterprise DevOps

• Structure your Git Repo
• Manage Git branches and workflows
• Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
• Explore Git hooks
• Plan foster inner source
• Manage Git repositories
• Lab: Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos

Module 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

• Explore Azure Pipelines
• Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
• Describe pipelines and concurrency
• Explore Continuous integration
• Implement a pipeline strategy
• Integrate with Azure Pipelines
• Introduction to GitHub Actionsr
• Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
• Lab: Configuring agent pools and understanding pipeline styles

Module 4: Design and implement a release strategy

• Introduction to continuous delivery
• Explore release strategy recommendations
• Build a high-quality release pipeline
• 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
• Lab: Controlling deployments using Release Gates
• Lab: Creating a release dashboard
• Lab: Feature flag management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

Module 5: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

• Create a release pipeline
• Configure and provision environments
• Manage and modularize tasks and templates
• Automate inspection of health
• Manage application configuration data
• Integrate with identity management systems
• Implement application configuration
• Lab: Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
• Lab: Setting up and running functional tests
• Lab: Configuring pipelines as code with YAML

Module 6: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure, DSC, and third-party tools

• Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
• Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Introduction to Chef and Puppet
• Implement Ansible
• Implement Terraform
• Lab: Deployments using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Lab: Ansible with Azure
• Lab: Automating infrastructure deployments in the cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Module 7: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance

• Introduction to Secure DevOps
• Implement open-source software
• Software Composition Analysis
• Static analyzers
• OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
• Security Monitoring and Governance
• Lab: Managing technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps
• Lab: Implement security and compliance in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Module 8: Design and implement a dependency management strategy

• Explore package dependencies
• Understand package management
• Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts
• Implement a versioning strategy
• Lab: Package management with Azure Artifacts

Module 9: Create and manage containers using Docker and Kubernetes

• Design a container build strategy
• Implement Docker multi-stage builds
• Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Explore Kubernetes tooling
• Integrate AKS with Pipelines
• Lab: Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service web apps
• Lab: Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Services

Module 10: Implement continuous feedback

• Implement tools to track usage and flow
• Implement route for mobile application crash report data
• Develop monitor and status dashboards
• Share knowledge within teams
• Explore SRE and design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture
• Lab: Integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
• Lab: Monitoring application performance with Application Insights