AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

• Development for enterprise DevOps (8 modules)

• Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions (8 modules)

• Design and implement a release strategy (5 modules)

• Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines (6 modules)

• Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC (6 modules)

• Design and implement a dependency management strategy (5 modules)

• Implement continuous feedback (5 modules)

• Implement security and validate code bases for compliance (4 modules)

1. Implementing development for enterprise DevOps

Lessons:

• Introduction to DevOps.
• Agile planning with GitHub projects and Azure Boards.
• Design and implementation of branch strategies and workflows.
• Collaborating on change requests in Azure Repos.
• Exploring Git links.
• Planning the promotion of an internal origin.
• Administration and configuration of repositories.
• Identification of technical debt.
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
• Version control with Git in Azure Repos

2. Deploy CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

Lessons:

• Exploring Azure Pipelines.
  
• Managing Azure pipeline groups and agents.
  
• Description of pipelines and concurrency.
  
• Design and implementation of a channeling strategy.
  
• Integration with Azure Pipelines.
  
• Introduction to GitHub Actions.
  
• Information about continuous integration with GitHub Actions.
  
• Designing a container build strategy.
  
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Configuring agent groups and describing pipeline styles
• Enabling continuous integration with Azure Pipelines
• Enabling continuous integration with Azure Pipelines
• Implementing GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Deploying Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps

3. Design and implementation of a version strategy

Lessons:

• Creating a release pipeline.
• Exploring version recommendations.
  
• Provisioning and testing environments.
• Administration and modularization of tasks and templates.
  
• Multi-phase YAML.
  
• Automation of state inspection.
  
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
  
• Controlling deployments with version gates
  
• Setting up and running functional tests

4. Create a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

Lessons:

• Introduction to implementation patterns.
• Blue-green implementation and activation/deactivation of functionality.
• Implementing controlled versions and dark start.
• Implementation of A/B and progressive exposure testing.
• Integration with identity management systems.
• Application configuration data management.
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Azure Key Vault Integration with Azure DevOps
• Enabling Feature Flags and Dynamic Configuration

5. Managing infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

Lessons:

• Exploring configuration management and infrastructure as code.
• Creating Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates.
• Bicep Implementation.
• Creating Azure resources with the Azure CLI.
• Exploring Azure Automation with DevOps.
• Implementation of Desired State Configuration (DSC).
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Deployments with Azure Bicep templates

6. Security implementation and validation of codebase compliance

Lessons:

• Introduction to Secure DevOps
• Implementation of open source software
• Software composition analysis
• Security oversight and governance.
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

7. Design and implementation of a dependency management strategy

Lessons:

• Scanning package dependencies.
  
• Description of package management.
  
• Migrate, consolidate, and protect artifacts.
  
• Implement a version control strategy.
  
• Introduction to GitHub packages.
  
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Package management with Azure Artifacts

8. Implementation of continuous feedback

• Implementation of tools to track usage
  and flow
  
• Development of monitoring and status panels
• Sharing knowledge within teams
• Process design to automate application analysis
  
• Alert management, blameless retrospectives, and a fair culture
  
• Review and key points of laboratories and learning path.

Laboratories:

• Monitoring application performance with Azure Load Testing
• Sharing team knowledge with Azure project wikis

Students who pass the test will have prior knowledge and understanding of:

• Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.

• Azure Administration and Azure Development with proven experience in at least one of these areas.

• Version control, Agile Software Development, and basic software development principles. Experience in a software organization would be helpful.

• Course: English / Spanish
• Labs: English

Complete a prerequisite:

To become a Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert , you must earn at least one of the following certificates:

• Option 1: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate ( AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator )
• Option 2: Microsoft Certification: Azure Developer Associate ( AZ-204: Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure )

Take the exam:

• AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Get certified:

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

As a DevOps engineer, you are a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has experience working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations.

• Job title: DevOps Engineer