Azure DevOps Training Overview
This Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions training (Microsoft course AZ-400) teaches attendees how to design and implement DevOps processes and practices for the Azure platform. Attendees learn how to integrate Azure with pipelines, infrastructure and configuration tools, automation, deployment, and more. This course prepares students for the AZ-400 exam for which every attendee receives a voucher.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Design and implement DevOps processes and practices
- Plan for DevOps
- Use source control
- Scale Git for an enterprise
- Consolidate artifacts
- Design a dependency management strategy
- Manage secrets
- Implement continuous integration
- Implement a container build strategy
- Design a release strategy
- Set up a release management workflow
- Implement a deployment pattern
- Optimize feedback mechanisms
Prerequisites
- 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
Outline
Introduction to DevOps
Choose the right project
Describe team structures
Choose the DevOps tools
Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
Introduction to source control
Describe types of source control systems
Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
Structure your Git Repo
Manage Git branches and workflows
Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
Identify technical debt
Explore Git hooks
Plan foster inner source
Manage Git repositories
Explore Azure Pipelines
Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
Describe pipelines and concurrency
Explore continuous integration
Implement a pipeline strategy
Integrate with Azure Pipelines
Introduction to GitHub Actions
Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
Design a container build strategy
Introduction to continuous delivery
Create a release pipeline
Explore release recommendations
Provision and test environments
Manage and modularize tasks and templates
Automate inspection of health
Introduction to deployment patterns
Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
Implement canary releases and dark launching
Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
Integrate with identity management systems
Manage application configuration data
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
Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Implement Bicep
Introduction to Secure DevOps
Implement open-source software
Software Composition Analysis
Static analyzers
OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
Security Monitoring and Governance
Explore package dependencies
Understand package management
Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts
Implement a versioning strategy
Introduction to GitHub Packages
Implement tools to track usage and flow
Develop monitor and status dashboards
Share knowledge within teams
Design processes to automate application analytics
Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
Training Materials
All Microsoft training students receive Microsoft official courseware.
For all Microsoft Official Courses taught in their entirety that have a corresponding certification exam, an exam
voucher is included for each participant.
Software Requirements
Attendees will not need to install any software on their computers for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide; students will only need a local computer with a web browser and a stable Internet connection. Any recent version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome will work well.
