Part 1: Implementing DevOps Development Processes
Module 1: Getting started with Source Control
- What is Source Control?
- Benefits of Source Control
- Types of source control systems
- Introduction to Azure Repos
- Migrating from TFVC to Git
- Authenticating to your Git Repos
Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps
- How to structure your git repo
- Git Branching workflows
- Collaborating with Pull Requests
- Why care about GitHooks?
- Fostering Internal Open Source
- Git Version
- Public projects
- Files in Git
Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure
- The concept of pipelines in DevOps
- Azure Pipelines
- Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
- Agent pools
- Pipelines & Concurrency
- Azure DevOps and Open Source projects
- Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
- Setup private agents
- Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
- Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines
- Analyze & Integrate Docker multi-stage builds
Module 4: Managing application config & secrets
- Introduction to Security
- Implement secure & compliant development process
- Rethinking application config data
- Manage secrets, tokens & certificates
- Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline
Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
- Introduction to Mobile DevOps
- Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
- Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups
- Manage target UI test device sets
- Provision tester devices for deployment
- Create public and private distribution groups
Part 2: Implementing Continuous Integration
Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
In this module, you’ll be introduced to continuous integration principles including: benefits, challenges, build
best practices, and implementation steps. You will also learn about implementing a build strategy with workflows,
triggers, agents, and tools.
- Continuous Integration Overview
- Implementing a Build Strategy
Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
In this module, you will be learn how to manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other
tooling solutions. You will also learn how to manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource
Bolt.
- Managing Code Quality
- Managing Security Policies
Module 8: Implementing a Container Build Strategy
In this module, you will learn how to implement a container strategy including how containers are different
from virtual machines and how microservices use containers. You will also learn how to implement containers
using Docker.
- Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Part 3: Implementing Continuous Delivery
Module 9: Design a Release Strategy
- Introduction to Continuous Delivery
- Release strategy recommendations
- Building a High Quality Release pipeline
- Choosing a deployment pattern
- Choosing the right release management tool
Module 10: Set up a Release Management Workflow
- Create a Release Pipeline
- Provision and Configure Environments
- Manage And Modularize Tasks and TemplatesÂ
- Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
- Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
- Automate Inspection of Health
Module 11: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
- Introduction into Deployment Patterns
- Implement Blue Green Deployment
- Feature Toggles
- Canary Releases
- Dark Launching
- AB Testing
- Progressive Exposure Deployment
Part 4: Implementing Dependency Management
Module 12: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
- Introduction
- Packaging dependencies
- Package management
- Implement a versioning strategy
Module 13: Manage security and compliance
- Introduction
- Package security
- Open source software
- Integrating license and vulnerability scans
Part 5: Implementing Application Infrastructure
Module 14: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
- Learning Objectives
- Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Create Azure REsources using ARM Templates
- Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
- Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
- Additional Automation Tools
- Version Control
- Lab Deploy to Azure using ARM templates
- Module Review Questions
Module 15: Azure Deployment Models and Services
- Learning Objectives
- Deployment Models and Options
- Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
- Azure Automation with DevOps
- Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
- Azure Service Fabric
- Lab Azure Automation - IaaS or PaaS deployment
- Moduel Review Questions
Module 16: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
- Learning Objectives
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster
- Module Review Questions
Module 17: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure
- Learning Objectives
- Chef
- Puppet
- Ansible
- Cloud-Init
- Terraform
- Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X
- Module Review Questions
Module 18: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
- Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
- Azure Security Center
- Lab Integrate a scanning extension or tool in an AZ DevOps pipeline/security center
- Module Review Questions
Part 6: Implementing Continuous Feedback
Module 19: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
- The inner loop
- Continuous Experimentation mindset
- Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
- Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
- Design process to automate application analytics
Module 20: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
- 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
Module 21: Optimize feedback mechanisms
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
- Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
- Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
- Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
Part 7: Designing a DevOps Strategy
Module 22: Planning for DevOps
In this module, students will learn about transformation planning, project selection, and team structures.
- Transformation Planning
- Project Selection
- Team Structures
Module 23: Planning for Quality and Security
In this module, students will learn about developing a quality strategy and planning for secure development.
- Planning a Quality Strategy
- Planning Secure Development
Module 24: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools
In this module, students will learn about migrating and consolidating artifacts, and migrating and integrating
source control measures.
- Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
- Migrating and Integrating Source Control
This course provides the knowledge and skills to implement DevOps processes. Students will learn how to use source
control, scale Git for an enterprise, and implement and manage build infrastructure.
Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps
Solutions certification exam.