Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

Get started on a DevOps transformation journey.

• Introduction to DevOps.
• When to apply DevOps process
• Principle of Agile Development.
• Organization structure for agile practices.
• What is Azure DevOps?
• What is GitHub?
• Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
• Link GitHub to Azure Boards.
• Introduction to source control.
• Explore DevOps foundational practices.
• Describe types of source control systems.
• Understand distributed and Centralized source control.
• Describe working with Git locally.
• Work with Azure Repos and GitHub.
• Develop online with GitHub Codespaces.

Development for enterprise DevOps

• Structure your Git Repo.
• Explore monorepo versus multiple repos.
• Manage Git branches and workflows.
• Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery.
• Explore GitHub flow.
• Version Control with Git in Azure Repos.
• Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
• Identify technical debt.
• Explore Git hooks.
• Plan foster inner source.
• Implement the fork workflow.
• Manage Git repositories.
• Work with large repositories.

Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

• Explore Azure Pipelines.
• Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools.
• Communicate with Azure Pipelines.
• Communicate to deploy to target servers.
• Describe pipelines and concurrency.
• Understand parallel and estimated jobs.
• Explore continuous integration.
• Introduction to continuous integration.
• The four pillars of continuous integration.
• Work with build properties.
• Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines.
• Implement a pipeline strategy.
• Implement multi-agent builds.
• Explore YAML resources.
• Use multiple repositories in your pipeline.
• Introduction to GitHub Actions.
• What are Actions?
• Explore Actions flow.
• Explore events.
• Explore jobs.
• Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions.
• Integrate with Azure Pipelines.
• Describe continuous integration with actions.
• Mark releases with Git Tags.
• Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

Design a container build strategy

• Introduction to Containers
• Examine Structure of Containers
• Work with Docker containers.
• Understand Dockerfile core concepts.
• Examine multi-stage dockerfiles.
• Explore Azure container-related services.
• Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps.

Design and implement a release strategy

• Introduction to continuous delivery.
• Create a release pipeline.
• Explore release recommendations.
• Control Deployments using Release Gates.
• Provision and test environments.
• Set up service connections.
• Configure automated integration and functional test automation.
• Set up and run functional tests.
• Manage and modularize tasks and templates.
• Create and manage task groups.
• Understand variables and variable groups.
• Create and manage variable groups.
• Automate inspection of health.
• Set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline.
• Configure Azure DevOps notifications.
• Explore common release management Tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, and so on.
• Explore common release management tools.

Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

• Introduction to deployment patterns.
• Classical deployment vs Modern deployment patterns.
• Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles.
• Set up a blue–green deployment.
• Implement canary releases and dark launching.
• Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment.
• Integrate with identity management systems.
• Introduction to Azure App Configuration.
• Manage application configuration data.
• Examine DevOps inner and outer loop.
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps.
• Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags.

Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

• Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management.
• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager Templates.
• Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI.
• Explore Azure Automation with DevOps.
• Create automation accounts.
• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC).

Implement Bicep

• Introduction to Bicep.
• Install Bicep
• Create Bicep templates.
• Understand Bicep file structure and syntax.
• Deploy a Bicep file from Azure Pipelines
• Deploy a Bicep file from GitHub workflows.

Design and implement a dependency management strategy

• Explore package dependencies.
• Understand package management.
• Introduction to Azure Artifacts.
• Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts.
• Implement a versioning strategy.
• Introduction to GitHub Packages.
• Delete and restore a package.

Implement continuous feedback

• Implement tools to track usage and flow.
• Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL).
• Implement Application Insights.
• Develop monitor and status dashboards.
• Explore Azure Dashboards.

Implement security and validate code bases for Compliance

• Introduction to Secure DevOps.
• Describe SQL injection attack.
• Understand DevSecOps.
• Implement open-source software.
• Explore how software is built.
• What is open-source software.
• Explore Software Composition Analysis (SCA).
• Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines
• Static analyzers.
• OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers.
• Security Monitoring and Governance.