Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400T00) Virtual Classroom Live February 24, 2025

Course Overview

Development for enterprise DevOps

• Introduction to DevOps
• Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
• Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
• Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
• Explore Git hooks
• Plan foster inner source
• Manage and configure repositories
• Identify technical debt

Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

• Explore Azure Pipelines
• Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
• Describe pipelines and concurrency
• Design and implement a pipeline strategy
• Integrate with Azure Pipelines
• Introduction to GitHub Actions
• Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
• Design a container build strategy

Design and implement a release strategy

• Create a release pipeline
• Explore release recommendations
• Provision and test environments
• Manage and modularize tasks and templates
• Automate inspection of health

Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

• Introduction to deployment patterns
• Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
• Implement canary releases and dark launching
• Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
• Integrate with identity management systems
• Manage application configuration data

Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

• Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
• Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Implement Bicep

Implement security and validate code bases for compliance

• Introduction to Secure DevOps
• Implement open-source software
• Software Composition Analysis
• Security Monitoring and Governance

Design and implement a dependency management strategy

• Explore package dependencies
• Understand package management
• Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts
• Implement a versioning strategy
• Introduction to GitHub Packages

Implement continuous feedback

• Implement tools to track usage and flow
• Develop monitor and status dashboards
• Share knowledge within teams
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

Prerequisites

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:

• Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
• Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.
• Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.