Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training

Module 1: Planning for DevOpsLessons 

• Transformation Planning

• Project Selection

• Team Structures

• Migrating to Azure DevOps

Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

After completing this module, students will be able to: 

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines

• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs

• Create a team and agile organizational structure

• Design a tool integration strategy

• Design a license management strategy (e.g. VSTS users)

• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software

• Design an authentication and access strategy

• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Module 2: Getting started with Source ControlLessons 

• 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

Lab : Version Controlling with Git

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using Source Control 

• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub

• Migrate from TFVC to Git 

Module 3: Scaling Git for enterprise DevOpsLessons 

• How to Structure your Git Repo

• Git Branching Workflows

• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos

• Why care about GitHooks

• Fostering Inner Source

Lab : Code Review with Pull Requests

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain how to structure Git repos 

• Describe Git branching workflows

• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews 

• Leverage Git hooks for automation 

• Use git to foster inner source across the organization

Module 4: Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy Lessons 

• Packaging Dependencies

• Package Management

• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

Lab : Updating Packages

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Recommend artifact management tools and practices 

• Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse 

• Migrate and consolidate artifacts 

• Migrate and integrate source control measures 

Module 5: Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure PipelinesLessons 

• 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

Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure PipelinesLab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•  Implement and manage build infrastructure

•  Explain why continuous integration matters 

•  Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Module 6: Managing Application Config and Secrets Lessons 

• 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 

Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

•  Manage application config and secrets

• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in pipeline

Module 7: Managing Code Quality and Security PoliciesLessons 

• Managing Code Quality

• Managing Security Policies

Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions

• Manage security policies with open source and OWASP

Module 8: Implementing a Container Build StrategyLessons 

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers

• Implement containers using Docker

Module 9: Manage Artifact versioning, security & complianceLessons 

• Package security

• Open source software

• Integrating license and vulnerability scans

• Implement a versioning strategy

Lab : Manage Open Source Security and License with WhiteSource

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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

• 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

Module 10: Design a Release StrategyLessons 

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery 

• Release strategy recommendations

• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline

• Choosing a deployment pattern

• Choosing the right release management tool 

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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

Module 11: Set up a Release Management WorkflowLessons 

• 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

Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAMLLab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gateLab : Creating a release Dashboard

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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

Module 12: Implement an appropriate deployment patternLessons 

• Introduction to Deployment Patterns 

• Implement Blue Green Deployment

• Feature Toggles

• Canary Releases

• Dark Launching

• AB Testing

• Progressive Exposure Deployment

Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe deployment patterns 

• Implement Blue Green Deployment 

• Implement Canary Release 

• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment 

Module 13: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teamsLessons 

• 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

Lab : Monitoring Application Performance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure crash report integration for client applications 

• Develop monitoring and status dashboards 

• Implement routing for client application crash report data 

• Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow 

• Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management 

Module 14: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure ToolsLessons 

• 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 

Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles

• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI 

Module 15: Azure Deployment Models and ServicesLessons 

• 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 

Lab : Deploying a Dockerized Java app to Azure Web App for Containers

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure 

Module 16: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service InfrastructureLessons 

• Azure Kubernetes Service 

Lab : Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster 

Module 17: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with AzureLessons 

• Chef

• Puppet

• Ansible

• Terraform

Lab : Infrastructure as CodeLab : Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform

Module 18: Implement Compliance and Security in your InfrastructureLessons 

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps 

• Azure security Center 

Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure

• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure 

Module 19: Recommend and design system feedback mechanismsLessons 

• 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 

Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction 

• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources 

• Design routing for client application crash report data 

• Recommend monitoring tools and technologies 

• Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools 

Module 20: Optimize feedback mechanismsLessons 

• 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 

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Analyze alerts to establish a baseline 

• Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline 

• Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages 

• Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts