Lessons

COURSE OVERVIEW

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.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

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

OUTLINE

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

Lessons

• Transformation Planning
• Project Selection
• Team Structures
• Migrating to Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. VSTS 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 2: Getting started with Source Control

Lessons

• What is Source Control
• Benefits of Source Control
• Types of Source Control Systems
• Introduction to Azure Repos
• Introduction to GitHub
• Migrating from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos
• Authenticating to Git in Azure Repos

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git

Module 3: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps

Lessons

• How to Structure your Git Repo
• Git Branching Workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
• Why care about GitHooks
• Fostering Internal Source

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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

Module 4: Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lessons

• Packaging Dependencies
• Package Management
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Recommend artifact management tools and practices
• Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
• Migrate and consolidate artifacts
• Migrate and integrate source control measures

Module 5: Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lessons

• The concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
• Agent Pools
• Pipelines and Concurrency
• Azure DevOps and Open Source Projects (Public Projects)
• Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy
• Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Integrate External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
• Set Up Private Agents
• Analyze and Integrate Docker Multi-Stage Builds

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement and manage build infrastructure
• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Module 6: Managing Application Config and Secrets

Lessons

• Introduction to Security
• Implement secure and compliant development process
• Rethinking application config data
• Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage application config and secrets
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in pipeline

Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

Lessons

• Managing Code Quality
• Managing Security Policies

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.
• Manage security policies with open source, OWASP

Module 8: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lessons

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

After completing this module, 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

Module 9: Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance

Lessons

• Package Security
• Open Source Software
• Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans Implement a Versioning Strategy

After completing this module, 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
• 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

Module 10: Design a Release Strategy

Lessons

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release strategy recommendations
• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing a deployment pattern
• Choosing the right release management tool

After completing this module, 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

Module 11: Set up a Release Management Workflow

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, 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

Module 12: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Lessons

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

Module 13: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure crash report integration for client applications
• Develop monitoring and status dashboards
• Implement routing for client application crash report data
• Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
• Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management

Module 14: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools

Lessons

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

Module 15: Azure Deployment Models and Services

Lessons

• Deployment Modules and Options
• Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
• Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
• Serverless and HPC Computer Services
• Azure Service Fabric

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

Module 16: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

Lessons

• Azure Kubernetes Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

Module 17: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure

Lessons

• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform

Module 18: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

Lessons

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
• Azure security Center

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

Module 19: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

Lessons

• The inner loop
• Continuous Experimentation mindset
• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
• Design process to automate application analytics

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
• Design routing for client application crash report data
• Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
• Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools

Module 20: Optimize feedback mechanisms

Lessons

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
• Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
• Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
• Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
• Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
• Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
• Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

LABS

Classroom Live Labs

• Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
• Lab : Version Controlling with Git
• Lab : Code Review with Pull Requests
• Lab : Updating Packages
• Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
• Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
• Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
• Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure
• Lab : Manage Open Source Security and License with WhiteSource
• Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML
• Lab : Setting Up Secrets in the Pipeline with Azure Key Vault
• Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests
• Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gate
• Lab : Creating a release Dashboard
• Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps
• Lab : Monitoring Application Performance
• Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates
• Lab : Deploying a Dockerized Java app to Azure Web App for Containers
• Lab : Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service
• Lab : Infrastructure as Code
• Lab : Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
• Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
• Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

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:

• Free online: Azure Fundamentals
• Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking:

• Free online: Prerequisites for Azure Administrators
• Instructor-led courses: AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator

If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking:

• Free online: Create serverless applications
• Instructor-led course: AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Students in this course are interested in designing implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

Training Location

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