Microsoft Azure DevOps (AZ-400) Training Course

In this lecture, 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

·      Lab: 

·      Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

·      Creating a Jenkins Build Job and Triggering CI

·      After completing this lecture, students will able to:

·      Explain why continuous integration matters

·      Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps              

In this lecture, 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

·      Lab: 

·      Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

·      Checking Vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt and Azure DevOps

·      After completing this lecture, 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.

In this lecture, 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

·      Lab: Existing .NET Applications with Azure and Docker Images

·      After completing this lecture, 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.  

·      Introduction to Continuous Delivery

·      Release strategy recommendations

·      Building a High Quality Release pipeline

·      Choosing a deployment pattern

·      Choosing the right release management tool

·      Lab: Building a release strategy

·      After completing this lecture, 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                       

·      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

·      Lab:

·      Automating your infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

·      Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault

·      Setting up and Running Load Tests

·      Setting up and Running Functional Tests

·      Using Azure Monitor as release gate

·      Creating a Release Dashboard

·      After completing this lecture, 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                      

·      Introduction into Deployment Patterns

·      Implement Blue Green Deployment

·      Feature Toggles

·      Canary Releases

·      Dark Launching

·      AB Testing

·      Progressive Exposure Deployment

·      Lab: 

·      Blue-Green Deployments

·      Traffic Manager

·      After completing this lecture, students will be able to:

·      Describe deployment patterns

·      Implement Blue Green Deployment

·      Implement Canary Release

·      Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment                 

·      Introduction

·      Packaging dependencies

·      Package management

·      Implement a versioning strategy

·      Lab: Updating packages

·      After completing this lecture, 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              

·      Introduction

·      Package security

·      Open source software

·      Integrating license and vulnerability scans

·      After completing this lecture, 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