Designing and Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

Implementing DevOps Development Processes – AZ-400T01
Module 1: Getting started with Source Control
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Describe the benefits of using source control
· Migrate from TFVC to Git

Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps

Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Implement and manage build infrastructure

Module 4: Managing application config & secrets
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Manage application config & secrets

Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
 
Implementing Continuous Integration – AZ-400T02
Module 1: 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.
Lessons
· Continuous Integration Overview
· Implementing a Build Strategy
After completing this module, students will:
· Explain why continuous integration matters
· Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Module 2: 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.
Lessons
· Managing Code Quality
· Managing Security Policies
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.
· Manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.
· Manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.

Module 3: 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.
Lessons
· Implementing a Container Build Strategy
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers.
· Implement containers using Docker.
 
Implementing Continuous Delivery – AZ-400T03
Module 1: Design a Release Strategy
Lessons
· Introduction to Continuous Delivery
· Release strategy recommendations
· Building a High Quality Release pipeline
· Choosing a deployment pattern
· Choosing the right release management tool
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Differentiate between a release and a deployment
· Define the components of a release pipeline
· Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
· Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
· Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
· Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
· Choose a release management tool

Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
· Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks 
· Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
· Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
· Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
· Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
· Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
· Embed testing in the pipeline
· List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports
· Create a release gate

Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
Lessons
· Introduction into Deployment Patterns
· Implement Blue Green Deployment
· Feature Toggles
· Canary Releases
· Dark Launching
· AB Testing
· Progressive Exposure Deployment
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Describe deployment patterns
· Implement Blue Green Deployment
· Implement Canary Release
· Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
 
Implementing Dependency Management – AZ-400T04
Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
Lessons
· Introduction
· Packaging dependencies
· Package management
· Implement a versioning strategy
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Recommend artifact management tools and practices
· Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
· Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
· Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution
· Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages
· Manage security and compliance

Module 2: Manage security and compliance
Lessons
· Introduction
· Package security
· Open source software
· Integrating license and vulnerability scans
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards
· Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
· Configure secure access to package feeds
 
Implementing Application Infrastructure – AZ-400T05
Module 1: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
· Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

Module 2: Azure Deployment Models and Services
Lessons
· 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
· Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

Module 3: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
Lessons
· Learning Objectives
· Azure Kubernetes Service
· Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster
· Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

Module 4: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure
Lessons
· Learning Objectives
· Chef
· Puppet
· Ansible
· Cloud-Init
· Terraform
· Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X
· Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform

Module 5: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
· Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

Module 6: Course Completion
Lessons
· Final Exam
 
Implementing Continuous Feedback – AZ-400T06
Module 1: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
· Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
· Design routing for client application crash report data
· Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
· Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools

Module 2: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Configure crash report integration for client applications
· Develop monitoring and status dashboards
· Implement routing for client application crash report data
· Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
· Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management

Module 3: Optimize feedback mechanisms
Lessons
· 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
· Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
· Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
· Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
 
Designing a DevOps Strategy – AZ-400T07
Module 1: Planning for DevOps
In this module, students will learn about transformation planning, project selection, and team structures.
Lessons
· Transformation Planning
· Project Selection
· Team Structures
After completing this module students will be able to:
· Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
· Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
· Create a team and agile organizational structure

Module 2: Planning for Quality and Security
In this module, students will learn about developing a quality strategy and planning for secure development.
Lessons
· Planning a Quality Strategy
· Planning Secure Development
After completing the module, students will be able to:
· Develop a project quality strategy
· Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.

Module 3: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools
In this module, students will learn about migrating and consolidating artifacts, and migrating and integrating source control measures.
Lessons
· Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
· Migrating and Integrating Source Control
After completing this module, students will be able to:
· Migrate and consolidate artifacts
Migrate and integrate source control measures
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