DevOps, Git & Automation
AZ-400T00 Design and Implement Microsoft DevOps solutions
Design and implement DevOps with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
4 daysIntermediate47 modulesAZ-400T00Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
About this course
Design and implement DevOps with Azure DevOps and GitHub. Over four days you will plan with Azure Boards and GitHub Projects, design branching strategies, pull request workflows and Git hooks, manage repositories and technical debt, and build pipelines with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions, preparing for AZ-400.
Curriculum
47 modules
- What is DevOps?
- Explore the DevOps journey
- Identify transformation teams
- Define organization structure for agile practices
- Explore shared goals and define timelines
- What is Azure DevOps?
- What is GitHub?
- Design a license management strategy
- What is source control?
- Describe working with Git locally
- Module assessment
- Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps
- Link GitHub to Azure Boards
- Configure GitHub Projects
- Manage work with GitHub Project boards
- Customize Project views
- Collaborate using team discussions
- Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles
- Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability
- Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
- Module assessment
- Explore branch workflow types
- Explore feature branch workflow
- Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
- Explore GitHub flow
- Explore fork workflow
- Implement branch merging restrictions
- Version control with Git in Azure Repos
- Module assessment
- Collaborate with pull requests
- Module assessment
- Implement Git hooks
- Module assessment
- Explore foster inner source
- Implement the fork workflow
- Describe inner source with forks
- Module assessment
- Work with large repositories
- Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
- Implement a changelog
- Implement Scalar and cross-repository sharing
- Recover specific data by using Git commands
- Clean up repository data
- Manage releases with GitHub repos
- Automate release notes with GitHub
- Create API documentation
- Implement automation of Git history documentation
- Configure repository permissions using GitHub
- Configure GitHub tags to organize repositories
- Examine code quality
- Examine complexity and quality metrics
- Measure and manage technical debt
- Integrate other code quality tools
- Plan effective code reviews
- Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
- Describe Azure Pipelines
- Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
- Module assessment
- Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
- Explore job types
- Explore predefined agent pool
- Understand typical situations for agent pools
- Communicate with Azure Pipelines
- Communicate to deploy to target servers
- Examine other considerations
- Describe security of agent pools
- Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles
- Module assessment
- Understand parallel jobs
- Estimate parallel jobs
- Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
- Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
- Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
- Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Module assessment
- Configure agent demands
- Explore multi-configuration and multi-agent builds
- Integrate GitHub repositories with Azure Pipelines
- Design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy
- Implement code coverage and show in the pipeline
- Implement multi-job builds
- Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
- Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
- Understand the pipeline structure
- Detail templates
- Explore YAML resources
- Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
- Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines
- Module assessment
- What are actions?
- Explore actions flow
- Understand workflows
- Describe standard workflow syntax elements
- Explore events
- Explore jobs
- Explore runners
- Examine release and test an action
- Module assessment
- Describe continuous integration with Actions
- Examine environment variables
- Share artifacts between jobs
- Examine workflow badges
- Describe best practices for creating actions
- Mark releases with Git tags
- Create encrypted secrets
- Use secrets in a workflow
- Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Module assessment
- Examine structure of containers
- Work with Docker containers
- Understand Dockerfile core concepts
- Examine multi-stage Dockerfiles
- Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
- Explore Azure container-related services
- Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
- Module assessment
- Describe Azure Pipelines capabilities
- Explore release pipelines
- Explore artifact sources
- Choose the appropriate artifact source
- Examine considerations for deployment to stages
- Explore build and release tasks
- Explore custom build and release tasks
- Explore release jobs
- Understand database deployment task
- Configure pipelines as code with YAML
- Module assessment
- Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
- Explore release approvals
- Explore release gates
- Use release gates to protect quality
- Explore GitOps release strategy and recommendations
- Control deployments using release gates
- Module assessment
- Provision and configure target environments
- Configure automated integration and functional test automation
- Understand Shift-left
- Set up and run availability tests
- Explore Azure Load Testing
- Set up and run functional tests
- Module assessment
- Examine task groups
- Explore Variables in release pipelines
- Module assessment
- Automate inspection of health
- Explore events and notifications
- Explore service hooks
- Configure Azure DevOps notifications
- Configure GitHub notifications
- Explore how to measure quality of your release process
- Examine release notes and documentation
- Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
- Explore common release management tools
- Module assessment
- Explore microservices architecture
- Examine classical deployment patterns
- Understand modern deployment patterns
- Module assessment
- What is blue-green deployment?
- Explore deployment slots
- Describe feature toggle maintenance
- Module assessment
- Explore canary releases
- Examine traffic manager
- Understand dark launching
- Module assessment
- What is A/B testing?
- Explore CI/CD with deployment rings
- Module assessment
- Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
- Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
- Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
- Explore workload identities
- Implement managed identities
- Module assessment
- Rethink application configuration data
- Explore separation of concerns
- Understand external configuration store patterns
- Implement Azure DevOps secure files
- Examine key-value pairs
- Examine App Configuration feature management
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
- Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Enable dynamic configuration and feature flags
- Module assessment
- Explore environment deployment
- Examine environment configuration
- Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
- Understand idempotent configuration
- Module assessment
- Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
- Explore template components
- Manage dependencies
- Modularize templates
- Manage secrets in templates
- Module assessment
- What Is Azure CLI?
- Install Azure CLI
- Execute Azure CLI Commands Interactively
- Create an Azure CLI Script for Bash
- Tips to Use the Azure CLI Successfully
- Module assessment
- Create automation accounts
- What is a runbook?
- Understand automation shared resources
- Explore runbook gallery
- Examine webhooks
- Explore source control integration
- Explore PowerShell workflows
- Create a workflow
- Explore hybrid management
- Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
- Module assessment
- Understand configuration drift
- Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Explore Azure Automation State Configuration (DSC)
- Examine DSC configuration file
- Implement DSC and Linux automation on Azure
- Module assessment
- What is Bicep?
- Install Bicep
- Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
- Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
- Module assessment
- Describe SQL injection attack
- Understand DevSecOps
- Explore the secure DevOps pipeline
- Explore key validation points
- Explore continuous security validation
- Understand threat modeling
- Explore CodeQL in GitHub
- Module assessment
- Explore how software is built
- What is open-source software?
- Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
- Explore common open-source licenses
- Examine license implications and ratings
- Module assessment
- Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
- Explore software composition analysis
- Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
- Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
- Examine tools for assessing package security and license compliance
- Automate container image scanning
- Interpret alerts from scanner tools
- Module assessment
- Implement pipeline security
- Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
- Explore Azure Policy
- Understand policies
- Explore initiatives
- Explore resource locks
- Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
- Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps
- Module assessment
- What is dependency management?
- Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
- Identify dependencies
- Understand source and package componentization
- Decompose your system
- Scan your codebase for dependencies
- Module assessment
- Explore packages
- Understand package feeds
- Explore package feed managers
- Explore common public package sources
- Explore self-hosted and SaaS-based package sources
- Consume packages
- Publish packages
- Package management with Azure Artifacts
- Module assessment
- Identify existing artifact repositories
- Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
- Secure access to package feeds
- Examine roles
- Examine permissions
- Examine authentication
- Module assessment
- Understand versioning of artifacts
- Explore semantic versioning
- Examine release views
- Promote packages
- Explore best practices for versioning
- Module assessment
- Publish packages
- Install a package
- Delete and restore a package
- Explore package access control and visibility
- Module assessment
- Understand the Inner Loop
- Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Explore Application Insights
- Implement Application Insights
- Design and Implement Metrics and Queries
- Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing
- Module assessment
- Configure monitoring in GitHub
- Explore Azure dashboards
- Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
- Explore Power BI
- Build your own custom monitoring application
- Monitor pipeline health including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
- Optimize pipelines for cost, time, performance, and reliability
- Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance
- Module assessment
- Share acquired knowledge within development teams
- Integrate GitHub and Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams
- Share team knowledge using Azure project wiki
- Module assessment
- Explore rapid responses and augmented search
- Integrate telemetry
- Examine monitoring tools and technologies
- Explore IT Service Management Connector
- Module assessment
- Examine when to get a notification
- Explore how to fix performance issues
- Configure smart detection notifications
- Improve application performance
- Understand server response time degradation
- Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
- Examine blameless retrospectives
- Develop a just culture
- Module assessment
Who it's for
DevOps engineers, developers and administrators working towards the Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
Before you start
- Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
- Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.
- Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
- AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator
- AZ-204T00: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
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