AZ-400T00 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Agenda

1 - GETTING STARTED WITH SOURCE CONTROL

• 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

2 - SCALING GIT FOR ENTERPRISE DEVOPS

• How to structure your git repo? Mono Repo or Multi-Repo?
• Git Branching workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests
• Why care about GitHooks?
• Fostering Internal Open Source
• Git Version
• public projects
• Storing Large files in Git

3 - IMPLEMENT & MANAGE BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE

• The concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
• Agent pools
• Pipelines & Concurrency
• Azure DevOps loves 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

4 - MANAGING APPLICATION CONFIG & SECRETS

• Demo: SQL Injection attack
• Implement secure & compliant development process
• Rethinking application config data
• Manage secrets, tokens & certificates
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline

5 - IMPLEMENT A MOBILE DEVOPS STRATEGY

• 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
• Provision tester devices for deployment

6 - IMPLEMENTING CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION IN AN AZURE DEVOPS PIPELINE

• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy

7 - MANAGING CODE QUALITY AND SECURITY POLICIES

• Managing Code Quality
• Managing Security Policies

8 - IMPLEMENTING A CONTAINER BUILD STRATEGY

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

9 - DESIGN A RELEASE STRATEGY

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release strategy recommendations
• Building a High Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing a deployment pattern
• Choosing the right release management tool
• 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

10 - SET UP A RELEASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOW

• Introduction
• 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
• Building a release management workflow
• 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

11 - IMPLEMENT AN APPROPRIATE DEPLOYMENT PATTERN

• Introduction into Deployment Patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

12 - DESIGNING A DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

• Introduction
• Packaging dependencies
• Package management
• Implement versioning strategy
• 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

13 - MANAGE SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE

• 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

14 - INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONFIGURATION AZURE TOOLS

• 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

15 - AZURE DEPLOYMENT MODELS AND SERVICES

• 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

16 - CREATE AND MANAGE KUBERNETES SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE

• Learning Objectives
• Azure Kubernetes Service

17 - THIRD PARTY AND OPEN SOURCE TOOLS AVAILABLE WITH AZURE

• Learning Objectives
• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Cloud-Init
• Terraform

18 - IMPLEMENT COMPLIANCE AND SECURITY IN YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE LESSONS

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
• Azure Security Center

19 - RECOMMEND AND DESIGN SYSTEM FEEDBACK MECHANISMS

• The inner loop
• Continuous Experimentation midset
• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
• Design process to automate application analytics

20 - 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 with development team work management system

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 PostMortems and a Just Culture

22 - PLANNING FOR DEVOPS

• Transformation Planning
• Project Selection
• Team Structures

23 - PLANNING FOR QUALITY AND SECURITY

• Planning a Quality Strategy
• Planning Secure Development

24 - MIGRATING AND CONSOLIDATING ARTIFACTS AND TOOLS

• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
• Migrating and Integrating Source Control