Description

This BootCamp course is for the new role-based AZ-400 exam targeted for Azure Developers. Taking this course and passing the AZ-400 exam meets part of the requirements for Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Certification.

This course is for experienced programmers who design, build and host Cloud solutions in Azure. Participants should have some experience with Azure and must be able to program in at least one Azure-supported language such as C#, Node.js, etc. This course covers topics such as performance, instrumentation, logging, integrating & managing APIs, and messaging architectures.

Course Fee: £2,199+VAT

Objective

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

Who Should Attend

Candidates for this exam are DevOps professionals who combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives. DevOps professionals streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaboration, and creating automation. They design and implement strategies for application code and infrastructure that allow for continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring and feedback.

Prerequisites

• Certifications (one of the below)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

• Candidates must be proficient with Agile practices. They must be familiar with both Azure Administration and Azure Development and experts in at least one of these areas. Azure DevOps professionals must be able to design and implement DevOps practices for version control, compliance, infrastructure as code, configuration management, build, release, and testing by using Azure technologies.

Course Outline

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

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

Hands-on: Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

Module 2: 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

Hands-on: Version Controlling with Git

Module 3: 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

Hands-on: Code Review with Pull Requests

Module 4: Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

• Packaging Dependencies
• Package Management
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

Hands-on: Updating Packages

Module 5: 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

Hands-on: Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Hands-on: Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
Hands-on: Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
Hands-on: Deploying a Multi-Container Application

Module 6: 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

Hands-on: Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

• Managing Code Quality
• Managing Security Policies

Hands-on: Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

Module 8: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Hands-on: Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

Module 9: Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance

• Package security
• Open source software
• Integrating license and vulnerability scans
• Implement a versioning strategy (git version)

Hands-on: Manage Open Source Security and License with WhiteSource

Module 10: 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

Module 11: 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

Hands-on: Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML
Hands-on: Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
Hands-on: Setting up and Running Functional Tests
Hands-on: Using Azure Monitor as release gate
Hands-on: Creating a release Dashboard

Module 12: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

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

Hands-on: Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

Module 13: 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

Hands-on: Monitoring Application Performance

Module 14: 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

Module 15: 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

Hands-on: Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

Module 16: 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

Hands-on: Azure Automation – IaaS or PaaS deployment

Module 17: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

• Azure Kubernetes Service

Hands-on: Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service

Module 18: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure

• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

Hands-on: Infrastructure as Code
Hands-on: Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

Module 19: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
• Azure security Center

Hands-on: Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

Module 20: 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

Hands-on: Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

Module 21: 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

About The Trainer

The trainer will be Microsoft Azure Professional.

Course Fee

£2,199+VAT