AZURE DevOps - Designing and implementing microsoft devops solutions

Course Program

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines

• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs

• Create a team and agile organization structure

• Describe the benefits of using Source Control

• Migrate from TFVC to Git

• Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps

• Recommend artifact management tools and practices

• Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse

• Migrate and consolidate artifacts

• Migrate and integrate source control measures

• Manage application config and secrets

• Develop a project quality strategy

• Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules

• Implement and manage build infrastructure

• Explain why continuous integration matters

• Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

• Manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions

• Manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt

• Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers

• Implement containers using Docker

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Describe deployment patterns

• Implement Blue Green Deployment

• Implement Canary Release

• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

• 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

• Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles.

• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

• Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

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

• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure

• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

• 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

• 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

PLANNING FOR DEVOPS

• Transformation Planning

• Project Selection

• Team Structures

• Migrating to Azure DevOps

GETTING STARTED WITH SOURCE CONTROL

• 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

SCALING GIT FOR ENTERPRISE DEVOPS

• How to Structure your Git Repo

• Git Branching Workflows

• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos

• Why care about GitHooks

• Fostering Inner Source

CONSOLIDATING ARTIFACTS & DESIGNING A DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

• Packaging Dependencies

• Package Management

• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

IMPLEMENTING CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION WITH AZURE PIPELINES

• 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

MANAGING APPLICATION CONFIG AND SECRETS

• 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

MANAGING CODE QUALITY AND SECURITY POLICIES

• Managing Code Quality

• Managing Security Policies

IMPLEMENTING A CONTAINER BUILD STRATEGY

MANAGE ARTIFACT VERSIONING, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

• Package security

• Open source software

• Integrating license and vulnerability scans

• Implement a versioning strategy (git version)

DESIGN A RELEASE STRATEGY

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery

• Release strategy recommendations

• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline

• Choosing a deployment pattern

• Choosing the right release management tool

SET UP A RELEASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW

• 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

IMPLEMENT AN APPROPRIATE DEPLOYMENT PATTERN

• Introduction to Deployment Patterns

• Implement Blue Green Deployment

• Feature Toggles

• Canary Releases

• Dark Launching

• AB Testing

• Progressive Exposure Deployment

IMPLEMENT PROCESS FOR ROUTING SYSTEM FEEDBACK TO DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

• 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

IMPLEMENT A MOBILE DEVOPS STRATEGY

• Introduction to Mobile DevOps

• Introduction to Visual Studio App Center

• Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups

• Manage target UI test device sets

• Provision tester devices for deployment

• Create public and private distribution groups

INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONFIGURATION AZURE TOOLS

• 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

AZURE DEPLOYMENT MODELS AND SERVICES

• 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

CREATE AND MANAGE KUBERNETES SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE

• Azure Kubernetes Service

THIRD PARTY INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE TOOLS AVAILABLE WITH AZURE

• Chef

• Puppet

• Ansible

• Terraform

IMPLEMENT COMPLIANCE AND SECURITY IN YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps

• Azure security Center

RECOMMEND AND DESIGN SYSTEM FEEDBACK MECHANISMS

• 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

OPTIMIZE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS

• 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