Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

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 Templates 
• 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