Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (MAZ400)

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Duration

5 days

Course overview

This course provides:

The knowledge and skills to implement DevOps processes. Students will learn how to use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, and implement and manage build infrastructure.
The knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps practices of continuous integration. Students will learn how to implement continuous integration in an Azure DevOps pipeline, how to manage code quality and security principles, and how to implement a container build strategy.
The knowledge and skills to implement continuous delivery. Students will learn how to design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, and implement an appropriate deployment pattern.
The knowledge and skills to implement dependency management. Students will learn how to design a dependency management strategy and manage security and compliance.
The knowledge and skills to deploy an application infrastructure in DevOps pipelines. Students will learn how to implement infrastructure as code and configuration management, how to provision Azure infrastructure using common automation tools, and how to deploy an application infrastructure using various Azure services and deployment methodologies. Students will also learn how to integrate 3rd party deployment tools with Azure, such as Chef and Puppet to incorporate compliance and security into the release pipeline.
The knowledge and skills to implement continuous feedback. Students will learn how to recommend and design system feedback mechanisms, implement a process for routing system feedback to development teams, and optimize feedback mechanisms.
The knowledge and skills to design a DevOps strategy. Students will learn how to plan for transformation, select a project, and create team structures. Students will also learn how to develop quality and security strategies. Planning for migrating and consolidating artifacts and source control will also be covered.

Who should attend this training

This course is intended for those who are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe the benefits of using source control
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps
Implement and manage build infrastructure
Manage application config & secrets
Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
Explain why continuous integration matters
Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps
Configure builds and the options available
Create an automated build workflow
Integrate other build tooling with Azure DevOps
Create hybrid build processes
Describe what is meant by code quality and how it is measured
Detect code smells
Integrate automated tests for code quality
Report on code coverage during testing
Add tooling to measure technical debt
Detect open source and other licensing issues
Implement a container build strategy
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
Recommend artifact management tools and practices
Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
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
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
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
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 system
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
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.
Develop a project quality strategy.
Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.
Migrate and consolidate artifacts.
Migrate and integrate source control measures.

Prerequisites

We recommend students to have fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It's be helpful if you have experience in an organization that delivers software.

It is recommended that you have experience working in an IDE, as well as some knowledge of the Azure portal. However, students who may not have a technical background in these technologies, but who are curious about DevOps practices as a culture shift, should be able to follow the procedural and expository explanations of continuous integration regardless.

Please note: In order to access the Azure labs for this course you will need to have a Microsoft Outlook account that has/will not be used to associate with any other corporate Azure subscription. You can set up a new Outlook account here.

Course Content

Module 1: Getting started with Source Control

Lessons:

What is Source Control?
Benefits of Source Control
Types of source control systems
Introduction to Azure Repos
Migrating from TFVC to Git
Authenticating to your Git Repos

Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps

Lessons:

How to structure your git repo
Git Branching workflows
Collaborating with Pull Requests
Why care about GitHooks?
Fostering Internal Open Source
Git Version
Public projects
Files in Git

Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure

Lessons:

The concept of pipelines in DevOps
Azure Pipelines
Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
Agent pools
Pipelines & Concurrency
Azure DevOps and Open Source projects
Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
Setup private agents
Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines
Analyze & Integrate Docker multi-stage builds

Module 4: Managing application config & secrets

Lessons:

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

Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

Lessons:

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

Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

In this module, you’ll be introduced to continuous integration principles including: benefits, challenges, build best practices, and implementation steps. You will also learn about implementing a build strategy with workflows, triggers, agents, and tools.

Lessons:

Continuous Integration Overview
Implementing a Build Strategy

Lab: Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Lab: Creating a Jenkins Build Job and Triggering CI

Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

In this module, you will be learn how to manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions. You will also learn how to manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.

Lessons:

Managing Code Quality
Managing Security Policies

Lab: Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
Lab: Checking Vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt and Azure DevOps

Module 8: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

In this module, you will learn how to implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers. You will also learn how to implement containers using Docker.

Lessons:

Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lab: Existing .NET Applications with Azure and Docker Images

Module 9: 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

Lab: Building a release strategy

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 10: 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

Lab: Automating your infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
Lab: Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
Lab: Setting up and Running Load Tests
Lab: Setting up and Running Functional Tests
Lab: Using Azure Monitor as release gate
Lab: Creating a Release Dashboard

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 11: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Lessons:

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

Lab: Blue-Green Deployments
Lab: Traffic Manager

Describe deployment patterns
Implement Blue Green Deployment
Implement Canary Release
Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

Module 12: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lessons:

Introduction
Packaging dependencies
Package management
Implement a versioning strategy

Lab: Updating packages

Recommend artifact management tools and practices
Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
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 13: Manage security and compliance

Lessons:

Introduction
Package security
Open source software
Integrating license and vulnerability scans
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

Module 14: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools

Lessons:

Learning Objectives
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
Additional Automation Tools
Version Control
Lab Deploy to Azure using ARM templates
Module Review Questions

Module 15: Azure Deployment Models and Services

Lessons:

Learning Objectives
Deployment Models and Options
Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
Azure Automation with DevOps
Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
Azure Service Fabric
Lab Azure Automation - IaaS or PaaS deployment
Moduel Review Questions

Module 16: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

Lessons:

Learning Objectives
Azure Kubernetes Service
Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster
Module Review Questions

Module 17: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure

Lessons:

Learning Objectives
Chef
Puppet
Ansible
Cloud-Init
Terraform
Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X
Module Review Questions

Module 18: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

Lessons:

Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
Azure Security Center
Lab Integrate a scanning extension or tool in an AZ DevOps pipeline/security center
Module Review Questions

Module 19: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

Lessons:

The inner loop
Continuous Experimentation mindset
Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction

Module 20: Planning for DevOps

In this module, students will learn about transformation planning, project selection, and team structures.

Lessons:

Transformation Planning
Project Selection
Team Structures

Lab: Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

Module 21: Planning for Quality and Security
In this module, students will learn about developing a quality strategy and planning for secure development.

Lessons: