Course AZ-400T00: Designing & Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

• Understand what DevOps is & the steps to accomplish it
• Identify teams to implement the process
• Plan for the transformation with shared goals & timelines
• Plan & define timelines for goals

• Understand different projects & systems to guide the journey
• Choose a project to start the DevOps transformation
• Find groups to minimize initial resistance
• Identify project metrics & Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Understand agile practices & principles of agile Development
• Create a team & elegant organizational structure
• Identify ideal DevOps team members
• Select & configure tools for collaboration

• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g., Azure DevOps & GitHub users)
• Design a plan for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design an authentication & access strategy
• Design a program for integrating on-premises & cloud resources

• Explain GitHub Projects & Azure Boards
• Link Azure Boards & GitHub
• Configure & Manage GitHub Projects & boards
• Customize Project views

• Understand source control
• Apply best practices for source control
• Explain the benefits of using source control

• Implement source control practices in your development process
• Explain the differences between centralized & distributed version control
• Understand Git & TFVC
• Develop using Git

• Explain Azure Repos & GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Work with GitHub Codespaces

• Understand Git repositories
• Implement mono repo or multiple repos
• Explain how to structure Git Repos
• Implement a change log

• Explain Git branching workflows
• Implement feature branches
• Implement GitHub Flow
• Fork a repo

• Leverages pull requests for collaboration & code reviews
• Give feedback using pull requests
• Configure branch policies
• Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals

• Identify & manage technical debt
• Integrate code quality tools
• Plan code reviews
• Explain complexity & quality metrics.

• Understand Git hooks
• Identify when used Git hooks
• Implement Git hooks for automation
• Explain Git hooks' behavior

• Use Git to boost internal sources across the organization
• Implement fork workflow
• Choose between branches & forks
• Share code between forks

• Understand large Git repositories
• Explain VFS for Git
• Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)
• Purge repository data
• Manage & Automate Release Notes with GitHub

• Explain Azure Pipelines
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines & its components
• Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
• Understand Azure Pipeline key terms

• Choose between Microsoft-hosted & self-hosted agents
• Install & configure Azure Pipelines Agents
• Configure agent pools
• Make the agents & collections secure
• Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines

• Use & estimate parallel jobs
• Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects
• Use Visual Designer
• Work with Azure Pipelines & YAML

• Explain why constant integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Explain the benefits of continuous integration
• Explain build properties

• Define a build strategy
• Explain & configure demands
• Implement multi-agent builds
• Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines

• Explain advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy & structure
• Detail templates & YAML resources
• Implement & use multiple repositories

• Explain GitHub Actions & workflows
• Create & work with GitHub Actions & Workflows
• Explain Events, Jobs & Runners
• Examine output & release management for actions

• Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
• Use environment variables
• Share artifacts between jobs & use Git tags
• Create & manage secrets

• Design a container strategy
• Work with Docker Containers
• Create an Azure Container Registry
• Explain Docker microservices & containers

• Explain continuous delivery (CD)
• Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
• Understand releases & Deployment
• Identify project opportunities to apply CD

• Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps & other Release Management Tooling
• Explain what a Build & Release task is, what it can do, & some available deployment tasks
• Implement release jobs

• Describe things to consider when designing your release strategy
• Define the components of a release pipeline & use artifact sources
• Create a release approval plan
• Implement release gates

• Provision & configure target environment
• Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
• Configure functional test automation & run availability tests
• Setup test infrastructure

• Use & manage task & variable groups
• Use release variables & stage variables in your release pipeline
• Use variables in release pipelines

• Implement automated assessment of health
• Create & configure events
• Configure notifications in Azure DevOps & GitHub
• Create service hooks to monitor the pipeline
• Classify a release versus a release process, & outline how to control the quality of both
• Choose a release management tool

• Explain deployment patterns
• Explain microservices architecture
• Understand classical & modern deployment patterns
• Plan & design your architecture

• Explain deployment strategies
• Implement blue-green Deployment
• Understand deployment slots
• Implement & manage feature toggles.

• Explain deployment strategies
• Implement canary release
• Explain traffic manager
• Understand dark launching

• Implement progressive exposure deployment
• Implement A/B testing
• Implement CI/CD with deployment rings
• Identify the best deployment strategy

• Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems
• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Understand & create a service principal
• Create managed service identities

• Rethink application configuration data
• Understand the separation of concerns
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Manage secrets, tokens & certificates
• Explain Azure App Configuration
• Understand Key-value pairs
• Understand app configuration feature management
• Implement application configuration

• Understand how to deploy your environment
• Plan your environment configuration
• Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
• Explain the idempotent configuration

• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Understand Azure Resource Manager templates & template components
• Manage dependencies & secrets in templates
• Organize & modularize templates

• Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
• Understand & work with Azure CLI
• Run templates using Azure CLI
• Explains Azure CLI commands

• Implement automation with Azure DevOps
• Create & manage runbooks
• Create webhooks
• Create & run a workflow runbook & PowerShell workflows

• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Explain Azure Automation State Configuration
• Implement DSC & Linux Automation on Azure
• Plan for hybrid management

• Learn what the Bicep is
• Learn how to install it & create a smooth authoring experience
• Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure
• Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell & Visual Studio Code

• Identify SQL injection attack
• Understand DevSecOps
• Implement pipeline security
• Understand threat modelling

• Implement open-source software
• Explain corporate concerns for open-source components
• Explain open-source licenses
• Understand the license implications & ratings

• Inspect & validate code bases for compliance
• Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps
• Implement pipeline security validation
• Interpret alerts from scanning tools
• Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts & security

• Understand Static Analyzers
• Work with SonarCloud
• Work with CodeQL in GitHub
• Interpret alerts from scanning tools

• Understand OWASP & Dynamic Analyzers
• Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices
• Understand compliance for code bases

• Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Understand Azure policies
• Explain initiatives, resource locks & Azure Blueprints
• Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity

• Define dependency management strategy
• Identify dependencies
• Explain the elements & componentization of a dependency management
• Scan your codebase for dependencies

• Implement package management
• Manage package feed
• Consume & create packages
• Publish packages

• Identify artifact repositories
• Migrate & integrate artifact repositories
• Secure package feeds
• Understand roles, permissions & authentication

• Implement a versioning strategy
• Promote packages
• Push packages from the pipeline
• Explain semantics & explore best practices for versioning

• Publish packages
• Install packages
• Delete & restore packages
• Configure access control & visibility

• Implement tools to track feedback
• Plan for continuous monitoring
• Implement Application Insights
• Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)

• Configure Azure Dashboards
• Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
• Create Azure Monitor Workbooks
• Monitor with Power BI

• Share knowledge with development teams
• Work with Azure DevOps Wikis
• Integrate with Azure Boards

• Automate application analytics
• Assist DevOps with rapid responses & augmented search
• Integrate telemetry
• Implement monitoring tools & technologies

• Carry out blameless retrospectives & create an appropriate culture
• Improve application performance
• Explain server response time degradation
• Reduce meaningless & non-actionable alerts

DevOps is the union of people, processes, & products to enable continuous value delivery to our end users. Donovan Brown. The contraction of "Dev" & "Ops" generally refers to replacing siloed Development & Operations to make multidisciplinary teams that are now working together with shared & efficient practices & tools.

A Software as a Service (SaaS) platform from Microsoft called Azure DevOps offers an entire DevOps toolchain for creating software. & deploying software. It generally integrates with most leading tools on the market & this is an excellent option for orchestrating a DevOps toolchain.

DevOps is no more than a set of processes that coordinate to unify development teams & processes to complement software development. The main reason behind DevOps' popularity is that it allows enterprises to make & improve products faster than traditional software development methods.

Azure DevOps Server is the on-premises offering built on a SQL Server back end. Although both offer the same essential services, as compared with Azure DevOps Server, Azure DevOps Services provides benefits like Simplified server management.

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