Design and Implement Microsoft DevOps solutions (AZ-400T00)

1. Introduction to DevOps
   1. DevOps concepts and the DevOps journey
   2. Transformation teams, organizational structure, shared goals, and timelines
   3. Azure DevOps and GitHub
   4. License management and source control
   5. Working with Git locally
2. Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
   1. Projects and teams in Azure DevOps
   2. GitHub integration with Azure Boards
   3. GitHub Projects, project boards, and customized views
   4. Team discussions and feedback cycles
   5. Source, bug, and quality traceability
   6. Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
3. Design and Implement Branch Strategies and Workflows
   1. Branch workflow types
   2. Feature branch and continuous delivery workflows
   3. GitHub flow and fork workflows
   4. Branch merging restrictions
   5. Version control with Git in Azure Repos
4. Collaborate with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
   1. Pull request collaboration
5. Explore Git Hooks
   1. Implement Git hooks
6. Plan to Foster Inner Source
   1. Inner-source practices
   2. Fork workflows
   3. Inner source with forks
7. Manage and Configure Repositories
   1. Large repositories and monorepo strategies
   2. Changelogs, Scalar, and cross-repository sharing
   3. Data recovery and repository cleanup with Git
   4. GitHub releases and automated release notes
   5. API and Git history documentation
   6. Repository permissions and tags
8. Identify Technical Debt
   1. Code quality, complexity, and quality metrics
   2. Measuring and managing technical debt
   3. Code quality tool integration
   4. Effective code reviews
9. Explore Azure Pipelines
   1. Pipelines in DevOps
   2. Azure Pipelines concepts and terminology
10. Manage Azure Pipeline Agents and Pools
    1. Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
    2. Job types and predefined agent pools
    3. Agent pool use cases and configuration
    4. Pipeline and target-server communication
    5. Agent pool security and pipeline styles
11. Describe Pipelines and Concurrency
    1. Parallel jobs and capacity estimates
    2. Azure Pipelines for open-source projects
    3. Visual Designer and YAML pipelines
    4. Continuous integration with Azure Pipelines
12. Design and Implement a Pipeline Strategy
    1. Agent demands and multi-configuration builds
    2. Multi-agent and multi-job builds
    3. GitHub repository integration
    4. Testing strategies and code coverage
    5. Supported source control systems
13. Integrate with Azure Pipelines
    1. Pipeline anatomy and structure
    2. Templates and YAML resources
    3. Multiple repositories in a pipeline
    4. Migration from classic pipelines to YAML
14. Introduction to GitHub Actions
    1. Actions and action flows
    2. Workflows and standard workflow syntax
    3. Events, jobs, and runners
    4. Releasing and testing an action
15. Learn Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
    1. Continuous integration with Actions
    2. Environment variables and shared artifacts
    3. Workflow badges and action development practices
    4. Git tags, encrypted secrets, and workflow secrets
    5. GitHub Actions for CI/CD
16. Design a Container Build Strategy
    1. Container structure and Docker containers
    2. Dockerfile concepts and multi-stage builds
    3. Azure container services
    4. Docker deployment to Azure App Service
17. Create a Release Pipeline
    1. Azure Pipelines capabilities and release pipelines
    2. Artifact sources and deployment stages
    3. Build, release, and custom tasks
    4. Release jobs and database deployment tasks
    5. YAML pipelines as code
18. Explore Release Strategy Recommendations
    1. Delivery cadence and release triggers
    2. Release approvals and gates
    3. Quality protection with release gates
    4. GitOps release strategies
    5. Deployment control with release gates
19. Configure and Provision Environments
    1. Target environment provisioning and configuration
    2. Automated integration and functional testing
    3. Shift-left practices
    4. Availability and functional tests
    5. Azure Load Testing
20. Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
    1. Task groups
    2. Release pipeline variables
21. Automate Inspection of Health
    1. Automated health inspection
    2. Events, notifications, and service hooks
    3. Azure DevOps and GitHub notifications
    4. Release process quality measurement
    5. Release notes and documentation
    6. Release management tools
22. Introduction to Deployment Patterns
    1. Microservices architecture
    2. Classical deployment patterns
    3. Modern deployment patterns
23. Implement Blue-Green Deployment and Feature Toggles
    1. Blue-green deployment
    2. Deployment slots
    3. Feature toggle maintenance
24. Implement Canary Releases and Dark Launching
    1. Canary releases
    2. Traffic Manager
    3. Dark launching
25. Implement A/B Testing and Progressive Exposure Deployment
    1. A/B testing
    2. CI/CD with deployment rings
26. Integrate with Identity Management Systems
    1. GitHub single sign-on
    2. GitHub permissions and roles
    3. Azure DevOps permissions and security groups
    4. Workload identities and managed identities
27. Manage Application Configuration Data
    1. Separation of concerns and external configuration stores
    2. Azure DevOps secure files
    3. Key-value pairs and App Configuration feature management
    4. Azure Key Vault integration with Azure Pipelines
    5. Secrets, tokens, and certificates
    6. Dynamic configuration and feature flags
28. Explore Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
    1. Environment deployment and configuration
    2. Imperative and declarative configuration
    3. Idempotent configuration
29. Create Azure Resources Using Azure Resource Manager Templates
    1. Benefits of Azure Resource Manager templates
    2. Template components and dependencies
    3. Template modularization
    4. Secret management in templates
30. Create Azure Resources Using Azure CLI
    1. Azure CLI installation
    2. Interactive Azure CLI commands
    3. Azure CLI scripts for Bash
    4. Azure CLI usage practices
31. Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
    1. Automation accounts and runbooks
    2. Shared resources and the runbook gallery
    3. Webhooks and source control integration
    4. PowerShell workflows
    5. Hybrid management
    6. Checkpoint and parallel processing
32. Implement Desired State Configuration
    1. Configuration drift
    2. Desired State Configuration
    3. Azure Automation State Configuration
    4. DSC configuration files
    5. DSC and Linux automation on Azure
33. Implement Bicep
    1. Bicep concepts and installation
    2. Bicep file structure and syntax
    3. Deployments with Azure Bicep templates
34. Introduction to Secure DevOps
    1. SQL injection attacks
    2. DevSecOps and secure DevOps pipelines
    3. Security validation points
    4. Continuous security validation
    5. Threat modeling
    6. CodeQL in GitHub
35. Implement Open-Source Software
    1. How software is built
    2. Open-source software concepts
    3. Corporate concerns about open-source components
    4. Common open-source licenses
    5. License implications and ratings
36. Software Composition Analysis
    1. Code-base compliance inspection
    2. Software composition analysis
    3. GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
    4. Composition analysis checks in pipelines
    5. Package security and license compliance tools
    6. Container image scanning and alert interpretation
37. Security Monitoring and Governance
    1. Pipeline security
    2. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    3. Azure Policy, initiatives, and resource locks
    4. Microsoft Defender for Identity
    5. GitHub Advanced Security integration and configuration
38. Explore Package Dependencies
    1. Dependency management strategies
    2. Dependency identification
    3. Source and package componentization
    4. System decomposition
    5. Code-base dependency scanning
39. Understand Package Management
    1. Packages and package feeds
    2. Package feed managers
    3. Public, self-hosted, and SaaS package sources
    4. Consuming and publishing packages
    5. Azure Artifacts package management
40. Migrate, Consolidate, and Secure Artifacts
    1. Existing artifact repository identification
    2. Artifact repository migration and integration
    3. Secure package feed access
    4. Roles, permissions, and authentication
41. Implement a Versioning Strategy
    1. Artifact versioning
    2. Semantic versioning
    3. Release views and package promotion
    4. Versioning best practices
42. Introduction to GitHub Packages
    1. Publishing and installing packages
    2. Deleting and restoring packages
    3. Package access control and visibility
43. Implement Tools to Track Usage and Flow
    1. The inner loop
    2. Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
    3. Kusto Query Language
    4. Application Insights
    5. Metrics and queries
    6. Application performance monitoring with Azure Load Testing
44. Develop Monitor and Status Dashboards
    1. Monitoring in GitHub
    2. Azure dashboards and Azure Monitor workbooks
    3. Power BI and custom monitoring applications
    4. Pipeline health, failure rates, duration, and flaky tests
    5. Pipeline cost, time, performance, reliability, and concurrency
45. Share Knowledge Within Teams
    1. Knowledge sharing within development teams
    2. Microsoft Teams integration with GitHub and Azure DevOps
    3. Azure project wikis
46. Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
    1. Rapid responses and augmented search
    2. Telemetry integration
    3. Monitoring tools and technologies
    4. IT Service Management Connector
47. Manage Alerts, Blameless Retrospectives, and a Just Culture
    1. Notification criteria and performance issue resolution
    2. Smart detection notifications
    3. Application performance improvement
    4. Server response-time degradation
    5. Reduction of meaningless and non-actionable alerts
    6. Blameless retrospectives and a just culture

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Experience in the following is required for this Azure DevOps Services class:

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