AZ-400T00-A: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions Training Course

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

Lessons

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

Lab: Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan for transformation with shared goals and timelines.
• Select projects and identify metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Create team and agile organizational structures.
• Design tool integration strategies.
• Design license management strategies (e.g., for Azure DevOps and GitHub users).
• Design end-to-end traceability strategies from work items to working software.
• Design authentication and access strategies.
• Design strategies 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

Lab: Version Controlling with 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: Managing Technical Debt

Lessons

• Identifying Technical Debt
• Knowledge Sharing within Teams
• Modernizing Development Environments with Codespaces

Lab: Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage code quality, including technical debt, using SonarCloud and other tools.
• Build organizational knowledge on code quality.

Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps

Lessons

• How to Structure Your Git Repo
• Git Branching Workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
• Why Care About Git Hooks
• Fostering Inner Source
• Managing Git Repositories

Lab: Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos

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 5: Configuring Azure Pipelines

Lessons

• The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Evaluate use of Hosted versus Self-Hosted Agents
• Agent Pools
• Pipelines and Concurrency
• Azure DevOps and Open-Source Projects (Public Projects)
• Azure Pipelines YAML versus Visual Designer

Lab: Configuring Agent Pools and Understanding Pipeline Styles

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components.
• Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines.

Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines

Lessons

• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy
• Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
• Set Up Self-Hosted Agents

Lab: Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lab: Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain why continuous integration matters.
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines.

Module 7: Managing Application Configuration and Secrets

Lessons

• Introduction to Security
• Implement a Secure Development Process
• Rethinking Application Configuration Data
• Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates
• Integrating with Identity Management Systems
• Implementing Application Configuration

Lab: Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage application configuration and secrets.
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with a pipeline.

Module 8: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

Lessons

• GitHub Actions
• Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
• Securing Secrets for GitHub Actions

Lab: GitHub Actions Continuous Integration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows.
• Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions.

Module 9: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lessons

• Packaging Dependencies
• Package Management
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
• Package Security
• Implementing a Versioning Strategy

Lab: Package Management with Azure 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 10: Designing a Release Strategy

Lessons

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release Strategy Recommendations
• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing the Right Release Management Tool

Lab: Controlling Deployments using Release Gates

Lab: Creating a Release Dashboard

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between a release and a deployment.
• Define the components of a release pipeline.
• Explain considerations when designing a release strategy.
• Classify a release versus a release process and outline methods to control their quality.
• Describe the principle of release gates and how to handle release notes and documentation.
• Choose a release management tool.

Module 11: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines

Lessons

• Create a Release Pipeline
• Provision and Configure Environments
• Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
• Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
• Automate Inspection of Health

Lab: Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML

Lab: Setting up and Running Functional Tests

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling.
• Describe what a Build and Release task is, its capabilities, and available deployment tasks.
• Explain why multiple release jobs may be needed in one release pipeline.
• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release jobs.
• Use release variables and stage variables in release pipelines.
• Deploy to environments securely using service connections.
• List methods to inspect pipeline and release health using alerts, service hooks, and reports.

Module 12: Implementing an Appropriate Deployment Pattern

Lessons

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

Lab: Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

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: Managing Infrastructure and Configuration using Azure Tools

Lessons

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

Lab: Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

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 14: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools Available with Azure

Lessons

• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

Lab: Automating Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Lab: Deploying Apps with Chef on Azure

Lab: Deploy App with Puppet on Azure

Lab: Ansible with Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure infrastructure using third-party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform.

Module 15: Managing Containers using Docker

Lessons

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy
• Implementing Docker Multi-Stage Builds

Lab: Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement a container strategy, including differences between containers and virtual machines and how microservices use containers.
• Implement containers using Docker.
• Implement Docker multi-stage builds.

Module 16: Creating and Managing Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

Lessons

• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Kubernetes Tooling
• Integrating AKS with Pipelines

Lab: Deploying a Multi-Container Application to Azure Kubernetes Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster.

Module 17: Implementing Feedback for 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

Lab: Monitoring Application Performance with Application Insights

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

Module 18: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms

Lessons

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Design Practices to Measure End-User Satisfaction
• Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
• Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
• Managing Alerts
• Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture

Lab: Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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.

Module 19: Implementing Security in DevOps Projects

Lessons

• Security in the Pipeline
• Azure Security Center

Lab: Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

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 20: Validating Code Bases for Compliance

Lessons

• Open-Source Software
• Managing Security and Compliance Policies
• Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans

Lab: Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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.