Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Module 1: Introduction to DevOps

• Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
• Identify teams to implement the process
• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Plan and define timelines for goals

Module 2: Choose the right project

• Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
• Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
• Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
• Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

Module 3: Describe team structures

• Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Identify ideal DevOps team members
• Select and configure tools for collaboration

Module 4: Choose the DevOps tools

• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Module 5: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
• Link Azure Boards and GitHub
• Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards
• Customize Project views

Module 6: Introduction to source control

• Understand source control
• Apply best practices for source control
• Describe the benefits of using source control

Module 7: Describe types of source control systems

• Apply source control practices in your development process
• Explain differences between centralized and distributed version control
• Understand Git and TFVC
• Develop using Git

Module 8: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub

• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Work with GitHub Codespaces

Module 9: Structure your Git Repo

• Understand Git repositories
• Implement mono repo or multiple repos
• Explain how to structure Git Repos
• Implement a change log

Module 10: Manage Git branches and workflows

• Describe Git branching workflows
• Implement feature branches
• Implement GitHub Flow
• Fork a repo

Module 11: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

• Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• Give feedback using pull requests
• Configure branch policies
• Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals

Module 12: Identify technical debt

• Identify and manage technical debt
• Integrate code quality tools
• Plan code reviews
• Describe complexity and quality metrics

Module 13: Explore Git hooks

• Understand Git hooks
• Identify when used Git hooks
• Implement Git hooks for automation
• Explain Git hooks’ behavior

Module 14: Plan foster inner source

• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
• Implement fork workflow
• Choose between branches and forks
• Share code between forks

Module 15: Manage Git repositories

• Understand large Git repositories
• Explain VFS for Git
• Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)
• Purge repository data
• Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub

Module 16: Explore Azure Pipelines

• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
• Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
• Understand Azure Pipeline key terms

Module 17: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

• Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
• Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents
• Configure agent pools
• Make the agents and pools secure
• Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines

Module 18: Describe pipelines and concurrency

• Use and estimate parallel jobs
• Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects
• Use Visual Designer
• Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML

Module 19: Explore continuous integration

• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Explain benefits of continuous integration
• Describe build properties

Module 20: Implement a pipeline strategy

• Define a build strategy
• Explain and configure demands
• Implement multi-agent builds
• Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines

Module 21: Integrate with Azure Pipelines

• Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure
• Detail templates and YAML resources
• Implement and use multiple repositories

Module 22: Introduction to GitHub Actions

• Explain GitHub Actions and workflows
• Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
• Describe Events, Jobs and Runners
• Examine output and release management for actions

Module 23: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

• Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
• Use environment variables
• Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags
• Create and manage secrets

Module 24: Design a container build strategy

• Design a container strategy
• Work with Docker Containers
• Create an Azure Container Registry
• Explain Docker microservices and containers

Module 25: Introduction to continuous delivery

• Explain continuous delivery (CD)
• Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
• Understand releases and deployment
• Identify project opportunities to apply CD

Module 26: Create a release pipeline

• 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
• Implement release jobs

Module 27: Explore release recommendations

• Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
• Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
• Create a release approval plan
• Implement release gates

Module 28: Provision and test environments

• Provision and configure target environment
• Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
• Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
• Setup test infrastructure

Module 29: Manage and modularize tasks and templates

• Use and manage task and variable groups
• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
• Use variables in release pipelines

Module 30: Automate inspection of health

• Implement automated inspection of health
• Create and configure events
• Configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Create service hooks to monitor pipeline
• Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
• Choose a release management tool

Module 31: Introduction to deployment patterns

• Describe deployment patterns
• Explain microservices architecture
• Understand classical and modern deployment patterns
• Plan and design your architecture

Module 32: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

• Explain deployment strategies
• Implement blue green deployment
• Understand deployment slots
• Implement and manage feature toggles”

Module 33: Implement canary releases and dark launching

• Describe deployment strategies
• Implement canary release
• Explain traffic manager
• Understand dark launching

Module 34: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

• Implement progressive exposure deployment
• Implement A/B testing
• Implement CI/CD with deployment rings
• Identify the best deployment strategy

Module 35: Integrate with identity management systems

• Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems
• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Understand and create a service principal
• Create managed service identities

Module 36: Manage application configuration data

• Rethink application configuration data
• Understand separation of concerns
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
• Describe Azure App Configuration
• Understand Key-value pairs
• Understand app configuration feature management
• Implement application configuration

Module 37: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management

• Understand how to deploy your environment
• Plan your environment configuration
• Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
• Explain idempotent configuration

Module 38: reate Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates

• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Understand Azure Resource Manager templates and template components
• Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
• Organize and modularize templates

Module 39: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI

• Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
• Understand and work with Azure CLI
• Run templates using Azure CLI
• Explains Azure CLI commands

Module 40: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

• Implement automation with Azure DevOps
• Create and manage runbooks
• Create webhooks
• Create and run a workflow runbook and PowerShell workflows

Module 41: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Describe Azure Automation State Configuration
• Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
• Plan for hybrid management

Module 42: Implement Bicep

• Learn what Bicep is
• Learn how to install it and create a smooth authoring experience
• Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure
• Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code

Module 43: Introduction to Secure DevOps

• Identify SQL injection attack
• Understand DevSecOps
• Implement pipeline security
• Understand threat modeling

Module 44: Implement open-source software

• Implement open-source software
• Explain corporate concerns for open-source components
• Describe open-source licenses
• Understand the license implications and ratings

Module 45: Software Composition Analysis

• Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
• Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps
• Implement pipeline security validation
• Interpret alerts from scanning tools
• Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts and security

Module 46: Static analyzers

• Understand Static Analyzers
• Work with SonarCloud
• Work with CodeQL in GitHub
• Interpret alerts from scanning tools

Module 47: OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers

• Understand OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
• Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices
• Understand compliance for code bases

Module 48: Security Monitoring and Governance

• Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Understand Azure policies
• Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints
• Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity

Module 49: Explore package dependencies

• Define dependency management strategy
• Identify dependencies
• Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
• Scan your codebase for dependencies

Module 50: Understand package management

• Implement package management
• Manage package feed
• Consume and create packages
• Publish packages

Module 51: Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts

• Identify artifact repositories
• Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
• Secure package feeds
• Understand roles, permissions and authentication

Module 52: Implement a versioning strategy

• Implement a versioning strategy
• Promote packages
• Push packages from pipeline
• Describe semantic and explore best practices for versioning

Module 53: Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Publish packages
• Install packages
• Delete and restore packages
• Configure access control and visibility

Module 54: Implement tools to track usage and flow

• Implement tools to track feedback
• Plan for continuous monitoring
• Implement Application Insights
• Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)

Module 55: Develop monitor and status dashboards

• Configure Azure Dashboards
• Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
• Create Azure Monitor Workbooks
• Monitor with Power BI

Module 56: Share knowledge within teams

• Share knowledge with development teams
• Work with Azure DevOps Wikis
• Integrate with Azure Boards

Module 57: Design processes to automate application analytics

• Automate application analytics
• Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search
• Integrate telemetry
• Implement monitoring tools and technologies

Module 58: Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

• Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
• Improve application performance
• Explain server response time degradation
• Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts