Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Introduction to DevOps - What is DevOps? - Explore the DevOps journey - Identify transformation teams - Explore shared goals and define timelines Choose the right project - Explore greenfield and brownfield projects - Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects - Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement - Identify groups to minimize initial resistance - Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) Describe Team Structures - Explore agile development practices - Explore principles of agile developmen - Define organization structure for agile practices - Explore ideal DevOps team members - Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration - Select tools and processes for agile practices Choose the Devops Tools - What is Azure DevOps? - What is GitHub? - Explore an authorization and access strategy - Migrate or integrate existing work management tools - Migrate or integrate existing test management tools - Design a license management strategy Plan Agile with Github Projects and Azure Boards - Introduction to GitHub Projects and Project boards - Introduction to Azure Boards - Link GitHub to Azure Boards - Configure GitHub Projects - Manage work with GitHub Project boards - Customize Project views - Collaborate using team discussions - Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards Introduction to Source Control - Explore DevOps foundational practices - What is source control? - Explore benefits of source control - Explore best practices for source control - Describe types of source control systems - Understand centralized source control - Understand distributed source control - Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control - Examine and choose Git - Understand objections to using Git - Describe working with Git locally Work with Azure Repos and Github - Introduction to Azure Repos - Introduction to GitHub - Migrate from TFVC to Git - Use GIT-TFS - Develop online with GitHub Codespaces Structure your Git Repo - Explore monorepo versus multiple repos - Implement a change log - Knowledge check Maage Git Branches and Workflows - Explore branch workflow types - Explore feature branch workflow - Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery - Explore GitHub flow - Explore fork workflow - Version Control with Git in Azure Repos Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos - Collaborate with pull requests - Exercise - Azure Repos collaborating with pull requests - Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals Identify technical dept - Examine code quality - Examine complexity and quality metrics - Introduction to technical debt - Measure and manage technical debt - Integrate other code quality tools - Plan effective code reviews Explore Git Hook - Introduction to Git hooks - Implement Git hooks Plan foster inner source - Explore foster inner source - Implement the fork workflow - Describe inner source with forks - Manage Git repositories - Work with large repositories - Purge repository data - Manage releases with GitHub Repos - Automate release notes with GitHub Explore Azure Pipelines - Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps - Describe Azure Pipelines - Understand Azure Pipelines key terms Manage Azure Pipeline Agents and pools - Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents - Explore job types - Introduction to agent pools - Explore predefined agent pool - Understand typical situations for agent pools - Communicate with Azure Pipelines - Communicate to deploy to target servers - Examine other considerations - Describe security of agent pools - Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles Describe Pipelines and Concurrency - Understand parallel jobs - Estimate parallel jobs - Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects - Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer - Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML Explore Continuous Integration - Introduction to continuous integration - Learn the four pillars of continuous integration - Explore benefits of continuous integration - Describe build properties - Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines Implement a Pipeline Strategy - Configure agent demands - Implement multi-agent builds - Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines Integrate with Azure Pipelines - Describe the anatomy of a pipeline - Understand the pipeline structure - Detail templates - Explore YAML resources - Use multiple repositories in your pipeline Introduction to Github Actions - What are Actions? - Explore Actions flow - Understand workflows - Describe standard workflow syntax elements - Explore events - Explore jobs - Explore runners - Examine release and test an action Learn Continuous Intergration with Github Actions - Describe continuous integration with actions - Examine environment variables - Share artifacts between jobs - Examine Workflow badges - Describe best practices for creating actions - Mark releases with Git tags - Create encrypted secrets - Use secrets in a workflow - Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD Design a Container Build Strategy - Examine structure of containers - Work with Docker containers - Understand Dockerfile core concepts - Examine multi-stage dockerfiles - Examine considerations for multiple stage builds - Explore Azure container-related services - Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps Introduction to continuous delivery - Explore traditional IT development cycle - What is continuous delivery? - Move to continuous delivery - Understand releases and deployments - Understand release process versus release Create a release Pipeline - Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities - Explore release pipelines - Explore artifact sources - Choose the appropriate artifact source - Exercise - select an artifact source - Examine considerations for deployment to stages - Exercise - set up stages - Explore build and release tasks - Explore custom build and release tasks - Explore release jobs - Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML Explore release recommendations - Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers - Exercise - select your delivery and deployment cadence - Explore release approvals - Exercise - set up manual approvals - Explore release gates - Use release gates to protect quality - Control Deployments using Release Gates Provision and Test Environments - Provision and configure target environments - Exercise - set up service connections - Configure automated integration and functional test automation - Understand Shift-left - Set up and run availability tests - Explore Azure Load Testing - Set up and run functional tests Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates - Examine task groups - Exercise - create and manage task groups - Explore variables in release pipelines - Understand variable groups Automate Inspection of Healt - Automate inspection of health - Explore events and notifications - Explore service hooks - Exercise - set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline - Configure Azure DevOps notifications - Configure GitHub notifications - Explore how to measure quality of your release process - Examine release notes and documentation - Examine considerations for choosing release management tools - Explore common release management tools Introduction to Deployment Patterns - Explore microservices architecture - Examine classical deployment patterns - Understand modern deployment patterns Implement blue-green Deployment and feature Toggles - What is blue-green deployment? - Explore deployment slots - Exercise - set up a blue–green deployment - Introduction to feature toggles - Describe feature toggle maintenance Implement canary releases and dark launching - Explore canary releases - Examine Traffic Manager - Understand dark launching Implement A/B Testing and prrogressive Exposure Deployment - What is A/B testing? - Explore CI-CD with deployment rings Integrate with Identity Management Systems - Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO) - Explore service principals - Explore Managed Identity Manage Application Configuration Data - Rethink application configuration data - Explore separation of concerns - Understand external configuration store patterns - Introduction to Azure App Configuration - Examine Key-value pairs - Examine App configuration feature management - Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines - Manage secrets, tokens and certificates - Examine DevOps inner and outer loop - Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps - Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags Explore Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management - Explore environment deployment - Examine environment configuration - Understand imperative versus declarative configuration - Understand idempotent configuration Create Azure Resources using Azure Resource Manager Templates - Why use Azure Resource Manager templates? - Explore template components - Manage dependencies - Modularize templates - Manage secrets in templates - Deployments using Azure Bicep templates Create Azure Resources by using Azure CLI - What is Azure CLI? - Work with Azure CLI Explore Azure Automation with Devops - Create automation accounts - What is a runbook? - Understand automation shared resources - Explore runbook gallery - Examine webhooks - Explore source control integration - Explore PowerShell workflows - Create a workflow - Exercise - Create and run a workflow runbook - Examine checkpoint and parallel processing Implement desired state Configuration (DSC) - Understand configuration drift - Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC) - Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC) - Examine DSC configuration file - Exercise - Import and compile - Exercise - Onboard machines for management - Explore hybrid management - Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure Implement BICEP - What is Bicep? - Install Bicep - Exercise - Create Bicep templates - Understand Bicep file structure and syntax Introduction to Secure Devops - Describe SQL injection attack - Understand DevSecOps - Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline - Explore key validation points - Explore continuous security validation - Understand threat modeling Implement open-source Software - Explore how software is built - What is open-source software - Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components - Introduction to open-source licenses - Explore common open-source licenses - Examine license implications and ratings Software Composition Analysis - Inspect and validate code bases for compliance - Explore software composition analysis (SCA) - Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines - Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates - Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines - Examine tools for assess package security and license rate - Interpret alerts from scanner tools - Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline Static Analyzers - Explore SonarCloud - Explore CodeQL in GitHub - Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers - Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices - Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test - Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs Security Monitoring and Governance - Implement pipeline security - Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios - Explore Azure Policy - Understand policies - Explore initiatives - Explore resource locks - Explore Azure Blueprints - Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity Explore Package Dependencies - What is dependency management? - Describe elements of a dependency management strategy - Identify dependencies - Understand source and package componentization - Decompose your system - Scan your codebase for dependencies Understand Package Management - Explore packages - Understand package feeds - Explore package feed manager - Explore common public package sources - Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources - Consume packages - Introduction to Azure Artifacts - Publish packages - Package management with Azure Artifacts Migrage Consolidating and Secure artifacts - Identify existing artifact repositories - Migrate and integrating artifact repositories - Secure access to package feeds - Examine roles - Examine permissions - Examine authentication Implement a versioning Strategy - Understand versioning of artifacts - Explore semantic versioning - Examine release views - Promote packages - Exercise - Promote a package - Explore best practices for versioning Introduction to Github packages - Publish packages - Install a package - Delete and restore a package - Explore package access control and visibility Implement Tools to track usage and Flow - Understand the inner loop - Introduction to continuous monitoring - Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics - Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL) - Explore Application Insights - Implement Application Insights - Exercise - Add Application Insights to an ASP.NET core application - Monitor application performance with Application Insights Develop monitor and status dashboards - Explore Azure Dashboards - Examine view designer in Azure Monitor - Explore Azure Monitor workbooks - Explore Power BI - Build your own custom application Share Knowledge within Teams - Share acquired knowledge within development teams - Introduction to Azure DevOps project wikis - Integrate with Azure Boards - Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki Design Processes to autmate application analytics - Explore rapid responses and augmented search - Integrate telemetry - Examine monitoring tools and technologie Manage Alerts, blameless Retrospectives and a just Culture - Examine when get a notification - Explore how to fix it - Explore smart detection notifications - Improve performance - Understand server response time degradation - Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts - Examine blameless retrospective - Develop a just culture