AZ-400 – Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to 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, and optimize feedback mechanisms.
Audience Profile
Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
- Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Create a team and agile organizational structure
- 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
- Describe the benefits of using Source Control
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
- Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
- Build organizational knowledge on code quality
- Explain how to structure Git repos
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Leverage Git hooks for automation
- Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
- Define Site Reliability Engineering
- Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
- Design processes to automate application analytics
- Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
- Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
- Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
- Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
- Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
- Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
- Manage organizational security and compliance policies
- Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
- Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings
Participant Prerequisites
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:
- 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.
If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following resources:
- Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking:
- Instructor-led courses: AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator and AZ-010: Azure Administration for AWS SysOps
If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking:
- Instructor-led course: AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure and AZ-020: Microsoft Azure Solutions for AWS Developers
Course Outline
The following items describe the outline of the course:
Module 1: Planning for DevOps
Module 2: Getting started with Source Control
Module 3: Managing Technical Debt
Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps
Module 5: Configuring Azure Pipelines
Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines
Module 7: Managing Application Configuration and Secrets
Module 8: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
Module 9: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy
Module 10: Designing a Release Strategy
Module 11: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines
Module 12: Implementing an Appropriate Deployment Pattern
Module 13: Managing Infrastructure and Configuration using Azure Tools
Module 14: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools Available with Azure
Module 15: Managing Containers using Docker
Module 16: Creating and Managing Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
Module 17: Implementing Feedback for Development Teams
Module 18: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms
Module 19: Implementing Security in DevOps Projects
Module 20: Validating Code Bases for Compliance
Course Materials
The following materials are included as part of the course:
- Microsoft Official digital Curriculum (MOC)
- Microsoft Online Lab (MLO)
