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.

Course dates and course fee may be subjected to changes.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to DevOps

• What is DevOps?
• Explore the DevOps journey
• Identify transformation teams
• Explore shared goals and define timelines

Lesson 2: 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
• Identity project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)

Lesson 3: Describe team structures

• Explore agile development practices
• Explore principles of agile development
• 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

Lesson 4: 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

Lesson 5: 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

Lesson 6: Introduction to source control

• Explore DevOps foundational practices
• What is source control?
• Explore benefits of source control
• Explore best practices for source control

Lesson 7: 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 locally

Lesson 8: 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
• Version Control with Git in Azure Repos

Lesson 9: Structure your Git Repo

• Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
• Implement a change log

Lesson 10: Manage 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

Lesson 12: Identify technical debt

• 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

Lesson 13: Explore Git hooks

• Introduction to Git hooks4 min
• Implement Git hooks

Lesson 14: Plan foster inner source

• Explore foster inner source
• Implement the fork workflow
• Describe inner source with forks

Lesson 15: Manage Git repositories

• Explore foster inner source
• Implement the fork workflow
• Describe inner source with forks

Lesson 16: Explore Azure Pipelines

• Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Understand Azure Pipelines key terms

Lesson 17: 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

Lesson 18: 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

Lesson 19: 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

Lesson 20: Implement a pipeline strategy

• Configure agent demands
• Implement multi-agent builds
• Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines

Lesson 21: 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
• Integrate external source control with Azure Pipelines

Lesson 22: 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

Lesson 23: Learn continuous integration 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

Lesson 24: 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

Lesson 25: 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

Lesson 26: 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

Lesson 27: 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

Lesson 28: Provision and test environments

• 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

Lesson 29: Manage and modularize tasks and templates

• 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

Lesson 30: Automate inspection of health

• 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
• Create a release dashboard

Lesson 31: Introduction to deployment patterns

• Explore microservices architecture
• Examine classical deployment patterns
• Understand modern deployment patterns

Lesson 32: 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

Lesson 33: Implement canary releases and dark launching

• Explore canary releases
• Examine Traffic Manager
• Understand dark launching

Lesson 34: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

• What is A/B testing?
• Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
• Exercise – Ring-based deployment

Lesson 35: Integrate with identity management systems

• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Explore service principals
• Explore Managed Identity

Lesson 36: 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 Feature Flags

Lesson 37: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management

• Explore environment deployment
• Examine environment configuration
• Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
• Understand idempotent configuration

Lesson 38: 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

Lesson 39: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI

• What is Azure CLI?
• Work with Azure CLI
• Exercise – Run templates using Azure CLI

Lesson 40: 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

Lesson 41: 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

Lesson 42: Implement Bicep

• What is Bicep?
• Install Bicep
• Exercise – Create Bicep templates
• Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
• Exercise – Deploy a Bicep file from Azure Pipelines
• Exercise – Deploy a Bicep file from GitHub workflows

Lesson 43: Introduction to Secure DevOps

• Describe SQL injection attack
• Understand DevSecOps
• Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
• Explore key validation points
• Explore continuous security validation
• Understand threat modelling
• Exercise threat modelling

Lesson 44: 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

Lesson 45: Software Composition Analysis

• Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
• Explore software composition analysis
• Integrate WhiteSource with Azure DevOps pipeline
• 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

Lesson 46: Static analyzers

• Explore SonarCloud
• Explore CodeQL in GitHub
• Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps

Lesson 47: OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers

• Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices
• Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test
• Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs

Lesson 48: 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

Lesson 49: 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

Lesson 50: Understand package management

• Explore packages
• Understand package feeds
• Explore package feed managers
• Explore common public package sources
• Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources
• Consume packages
• Introduction to Azure Artifacts
• Publish packages

Lesson 51: Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts

• Identify existing artifact repositories
• Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
• Secure access to package feeds
• Examine roles
• Examine permissions
• Examine authentication

Lesson 52: 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
• Exercise – Push from the pipeline

Lesson 53: Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Publish packages
• Install a package
• Delete and restore a package
• Explore package access control and visibility

Lesson 54: 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

Lesson 55: 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

Lesson 56: Share knowledge within teams

• Share acquired knowledge within development teams
• Introduction to Azure DevOps project wikis
• Integrate with Azure Boards
• Integrate Azure DevOps and Teams
• Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki

Lesson 57: Design processes to automate application analytics

• Explore rapid responses and augmented search
• Integrate telemetry
• Examine monitoring tools and technologies

Lesson 58: 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