Course Overview
1 - Introduction to DevOps
- What is DevOps?
- Explore the DevOps journey
- Identify transformation teams
- Define organization structure for agile practices
- Explore shared goals and define timelines
- What is Azure DevOps?
- What is GitHub?
- Design a license management strategy
- What is source control?
- Describe working with Git locally
2 - Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps
- Link GitHub to Azure Boards
- Configure GitHub Projects
- Manage work with GitHub Project boards
- Customize Project views
- Collaborate using team discussions
- Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles
- Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability
- Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
3 - Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
- Explore branch workflow types
- Explore feature branch workflow
- Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
- Explore GitHub flow
- Explore fork workflow
- Implement branch merging restrictions
- Version Control with Git in Azure Repos
4 - Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
- Collaborate with pull requests
5 - Explore Git hooks
6 - Plan foster inner source
- Explore foster inner source
- Implement the fork workflow
- Describe inner source with forks
7 - Manage and configure repositories
- Work with large repositories
- Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
- Implement a change log
- Implement Scalar and cross repo when cross repo sharing
- Recover specific data by using Git commands
- Purge repository data
- Manage releases with GitHub Repos
- Automate release notes with GitHub
- Create API documentation
- Implement automation of Git history documentation
- Configure source control repository permissions using GitHub
- Configure GitHub tags to organize repositories
8 - Identify technical debt
- Examine code quality
- Examine complexity and quality metrics
- Measure and manage technical debt
- Integrate other code quality tools
- Plan effective code reviews
9 - Explore Azure Pipelines
- Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
- Describe Azure Pipelines
- Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
10 - Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
- Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
- Explore job types
- Explore predefined agent pool
- Understand typical situations for agent pools
- Communicate with Azure Pipelines
- Communicate to deploy to target servers
- Examine other considerations
- Describe security of agent pools
- Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles
11 - Describe pipelines and concurrency
- Understand parallel jobs
- Estimate parallel jobs
- Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
- Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
- Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
- Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
12 - Design and implement a pipeline strategy
- Configure agent demands
- Explore multi-configuration and multi-agent
- Integrate GitHub repos and Azure Pipelines
- Design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy
- Implement code coverage and show in the pipeline
- Implement multi-job builds
- Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
13 - Integrate with Azure Pipelines
- Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
- Understand the pipeline structure
- Detail templates
- Explore YAML resources
- Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
- Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines
14 - Introduction to GitHub Actions
- What are actions?
- Explore Actions flow
- Understand Workflows
- Describe standard workflow syntax elements
- Explore Events
- Explore Jobs
- Explore Runners
- Examine release and test an action
15 - Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
- Describe continuous integration with actions
- Examine environment variables
- Share artifacts between jobs
- Examine Workflow badges
- Describe best practices for creating actions
- Mark releases with Git tags
- Create encrypted secrets
- Use secrets in a workflow
- Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD
16 - Design a container build strategy
- Examine structure of containers
- Work with Docker containers
- Understand Dockerfile core concepts
- Examine multi-stage dockerfiles
- Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
- Explore Azure container-related services
- Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
17 - Create a release pipeline
- Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
- Explore release pipelines
- Explore artifact sources
- Choose the appropriate artifact source
- Examine considerations for deployment to stages
- Explore build and release tasks
- Explore custom build and release tasks
- Explore release jobs
- Understand database deployment task
- Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
18 - Explore release recommendations
- Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
- Explore release approvals
- Explore release gates
- Use release gates to protect quality
- Explore GitOps release strategy and recommendations
- Control Deployments using Release Gates
19 - Provision and test environments
- Provision and configure target environments
- Configure automated integration and functional test automation
- Understand Shift-left
- Set up and run availability tests
- Explore Azure Load Testing
- Set up and run functional tests
20 - Manage and modularize tasks and templates
- Examine task groups
- Explore variables in release pipelines
21 - Automate inspection of health
- Automate inspection of health
- Explore events and notifications
- Explore service hooks
- Configure Azure DevOps notifications
- Configure GitHub notifications
- Explore how to measure quality of your release process
- Examine release notes and documentation
- Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
- Explore common release management tools
22 - Introduction to deployment patterns
- Explore microservices architecture
- Examine classical deployment patterns
- Understand modern deployment patterns
23 - Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
- What is blue-green deployment?
- Explore deployment slots
- Describe feature toggle maintenance
24 - Implement canary releases and dark launching
- Explore canary releases
- Examine traffic manager
- Understand dark launching
25 - Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
- What is A/B testing?
- Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
26 - Integrate with identity management systems
- Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
- Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
- Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
- Explore workload identities
- Implement managed identities
27 - Manage application configuration data
- Rethink application configuration data
- Explore separation of concerns
- Understand external configuration store patterns
- Implement Azure DevOps secure files
- Examine Key-value pairs
- Examine App configuration feature management
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
- Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
- Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags
28 - Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Explore environment deployment
- Examine environment configuration
- Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
- Understand idempotent configuration
29 - Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
- Explore template components
- Manage dependencies
- Modularize templates
- Manage secrets in templates
30 - Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
- What is Azure CLI?
- Work with Azure CLI
31 - Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
- Create automation accounts
- What is a runbook?
- Understand automation shared resources
- Explore runbook gallery
- Examine webhooks
- Explore source control integration
- Explore PowerShell workflows
- Create a workflow
- Explore hybrid management
- Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
32 - Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Understand configuration drift
- Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
- Examine DSC configuration file
- Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
33 - Implement Bicep
- What is Bicep?
- Install Bicep
- Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
- Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
34 - Introduction to Secure DevOps
- Describe SQL injection attack
- Understand DevSecOps
- Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
- Explore key validation points
- Explore continuous security validation
- Understand threat modeling
- Explore CodeQL in GitHub
35 - Implement open-source software
- Explore how software is built
- What is open-source software?
- Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
- Explore common open-source licenses
- Examine license implications and ratings
36 - Software Composition Analysis
- Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
- Explore software composition analysis (SCA)
- Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
- Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
- Examine tools for assess package security and license rate
- Automate container scanning, including container images
- Interpret alerts from scanner tools
37 - Security Monitoring and Governance
- Implement pipeline security
- Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
- Explore Azure Policy
- Understand policies
- Explore initiatives
- Explore resource locks
- Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
- Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps
38 - Explore package dependencies
- What is dependency management?
- Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
- Identify dependencies
- Understand source and package componentization
- Decompose your system
- Scan your codebase for dependencies
39 - Understand package management
- Explore packages
- Understand package feeds
- Explore package feed managers
- Explore common public package sources
- Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources
- Consume packages
- Publish packages
- Package management with Azure Artifacts
40 - Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts
- Identify existing artifact repositories
- Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
- Secure access to package feeds
- Examine roles
- Examine permissions
- Examine authentication
41 - Implement a versioning strategy
- Understand versioning of artifacts
- Explore semantic versioning
- Examine release views
- Promote packages
- Explore best practices for versioning
42 - Introduction to GitHub Packages
- Publish packages
- Install a package
- Delete and restore a package
- Explore package access control and visibility
43 - Implement tools to track usage and flow
- Understand the inner loop
- Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Explore Application Insights
- Implement Application Insights
- Design and implement metrics and queries
- Monitor application performance with Application Insights
44 - Develop monitor and status dashboards
- Configure monitoring in GitHub
- Explore Azure Dashboards
- Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
- Explore Power BI
- Build your own custom application
- Monitor pipeline health, including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
- Optimize a pipeline for cost, time, performance, and reliability
- Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance and cost
45 - Share knowledge within teams
- Share acquired knowledge within development teams
- Integrate GitHub and Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams
- Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
46 - Design processes to automate application analytics
- Explore rapid responses and augmented search
- Integrate telemetry
- Examine monitoring tools and technologies
- Explore IT Service Management Connector
47 - Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
- Examine when to get a notification
- Explore how to fix it
- Explore smart detection notifications
- Improve performance
- Understand server response time degradation
- Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
- Examine blameless retrospective
- Develop a just culture
