Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Learning Objective:

In this module, you will learn how to manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions, and build organizational knowledge on code quality.

Topics

• Identifying Technical Debt
• Knowledge Sharing within Teams
• Modernizing Development Environments with Codespaces

Lab:

Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn how to structure Git repos, understand Git branching workflows, utilise pull requests for collaboration and code reviews, use Git hooks for automation, and foster inner source across the organization using Git.

Topics

• How to Structure Your Git Repo
• Git Branching Workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
• Why Care About Git Hooks
• Fostering Inner Source
• Managing Git Repositories

Lab:

Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos

Learning Objective:

In the module, you will learn what is the role of Azure pipelines and configure agents for using in Azure pipelines.

Topics

• The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Evaluate use of Hosted versus Self-Hosted Agents
• Agent Pools
• Pipelines and Concurrency
• Azure DevOps and Open-Source Projects (Public Projects)
• Azure Pipelines YAML versus Visual Designer

Lab:

Configuring Agent Pools and Understanding Pipeline Styles

Learning Objective:

This module will help you understand why continuous integration is important., and how you can use Azure pipelines to implement it.

Topics

• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy
• Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
• Set Up Self-Hosted Agents

Lab:

Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lab:

Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines

Learning Objective:

In this module, you will learn to manage application configuration and how to integrate Azure Key Vault with a pipeline.

Topics

• Introduction to Security
• Implement a Secure Development Process
• Rethinking Application Configuration Data
• Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates
• Integrating with Identity Management Systems
• Implementing Application Configuration

Lab:

Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

Learning Objective:

In this module, you will learn how to create GitHub actions and workflows and work with them, you will also learn to use GitHub actions for implementing continuous integration.

Topics

• GitHub Actions
• Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
• Securing Secrets for GitHub Actions

Lab:

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration

Learning Objective:

This module will cover artifact management tools and practices, migration and consolidation of artifacts, and integration of source control measures.

Topics

• Packaging Dependencies
• Package Management
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
• Package Security
• Implementing a Versioning Strategy

Lab:

Package Management with Azure Artifacts

Learning Objective:

On completing this module, you will be able to understand all aspects of a release strategy, right from difference between release and deployment, to components of a release pipeline, to how to design the release strategy, selecting the right release management tool.

Topics

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release Strategy Recommendations
• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing the Right Release Management Tool

Lab:

Controlling Deployments using Release Gates

Lab:

Creating a Release Dashboard

Learning Objective:

On completing this module, you will be able to understand the difference between a multi agent and a multi configuration release job, deploy an environment securely using a service connection, and become familiar with the terminology used in Azure DevOps.

Topics

• Create a Release Pipeline
• Provision and Configure Environments
• Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
• Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
• Automate Inspection of Health

Lab:

Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML

Lab:

Setting up and Running Functional Tests

Learning Objectives:

In this module you will learn all about deployment patterns, how to implement Blue Green Deployment, Canary Release, and Progressive Exposure Deployment

Topics

• Introduction to Deployment Patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Feature Toggles
• Canary Releases
• Dark Launching
• AB Testing
• Progressive Exposure Deployment

Lab:

Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

Learning Objective:

This module covers applying infrastructure and configuration as code principles, and deploying infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

Topics

• Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
• Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
• Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
• Azure Automation with DevOps
• Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Lab:

Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

Learning Objectives:

In this practical module, students will learn to deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform.

Topics

• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

Lab:

Automating Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Lab:

Deploying Apps with Chef on Azure

Lab:

Deploy App with Puppet on Azure

Lab:

Ansible with Azure

Learning Objectives:

This module covers how microservices can be used, difference between containers and VMs, user Docker to implement containers, and implement Docker multi-stage builds.

Topics

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy
• Implementing Docker Multi-Stage Builds

Lab:

Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn how to deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster.

Topics

• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Kubernetes Tooling
• Integrating AKS with Pipelines

Lab:

Deploying a Multi-Container Application to Azure Kubernetes Service

Learning Objectives:

This module covers how to implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow, configure crash report integration for client applications, integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management.

Topics

• 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

Lab:

Monitoring Application Performance with Application Insights

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn about Site Reliability Engineering, processes to measure user satisfaction, and automate analytics.

Topics

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Design Practices to Measure End-User Satisfaction
• Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
• Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
• Managing Alerts
• Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture

Lab:

Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn about the various aspects of security in the context of application infrastructure.

Topics

• Security in the Pipeline
• Azure Security Center

Lab:

Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Learning Objectives:

In the final module, you will learn how to integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines, inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance, and manage organizational security and compliance policies.

Topics

• Open-Source Software
• Managing Security and Compliance Policies
• Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans

Lab:

Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps