AZ-2008: DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices

AZ-2008 Course: DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices

Explore DevOps practices using GitHub . Development and operations teams will experience improved collaboration, agility, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, and operational excellence across all phases of the application lifecycle.

Level: Beginner - Role: Administrator, Developer, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, Security Operations Analyst, Solutions Architect, Student, Technical Support Engineer - Product: GitHub, Azure, Azure Cloud Services, Azure DevOps

DevOps Fundamentals - DevOps Principles - CI/CD Practices - Development Automation - Continuous Integration - Continuous Delivery - Azure DevOps Training

Addressed to

• DevOps Beginners
  
• Systems administrators
  
• Developers
  
• DevOps Engineers
  
• Safety engineers
  
• Operations Analysts
  
• Solutions Architects
  
• Students and support professionals

Ideal for those who work with Azure, Azure DevOps, and GitHub and are looking to improve collaboration between development and operations.

Objectives of the AZ-2008 training

• Explore DevOps practices to optimize the application lifecycle.
  
• Improve collaboration, agility, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and automation.
  
• Agile project planning with GitHub Projects, fostering shared responsibility and continuous learning.
  
• Implement version control with Git and GitHub, along with "shift-left" testing and security.
  
• Build and run CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, accelerating release cycles and increasing resilience.
  
• Achieving operational excellence through production testing, observability, reliability engineering, and platform

Course Content AZ-2008: DevOps Fundamentals: Fundamental Principles and Practices

Description of DevOps

• Introduction
  
• What is DevOps?
  
• Explore the DevOps culture
  
• Exploring the goals and advantages of DevOps
  
• Exploring the DevOps application lifecycle

Plan with DevOps

• Introduction
  
• Promoting a DevOps culture
  
• What is Agile?
  
• Exploring DevOps practices
  
• Planning with GitHub
  
• Agile planning and management using GitHub

Develop with DevOps

• Introduction
  
• Exploring source code control and version control
  
• Exploring version control using Git
  
• Exploring the GitHub workflow
  
• Exploring continuous integration
  
• Exploration of the leftward shift of evidence
  
• Exploration of the safety displacement to the left
  
• Implementing the workflow with GitHub

Deliver with DevOps

• Introduction
  
• Exploring continuous delivery
  
• Exploring Infrastructure as Code
  
• Exploration of progressive exposure techniques
  
• Exploring continuous delivery with GitHub Actions
  
• Implementing CI/CD with GitHub Actions and IaC with Bicep

Operating with DevOps

• Introduction
  
• Exploring operational excellence
  
• Exploration of production testing
  
• Exploring observability through performance monitoring
  
• Exploring observability through security assessment
  
• Explore resilience with site reliability engineering
  
• Improving the developer experience with platform engineering
  
• Improved resilience of the Traffic Manager and Azure Chaos Studio workload

Prerequisites

• An Azure subscription. You need to bring your own subscription.
  
• Basic knowledge of IT terms and concepts.

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
• Labs: English / Spanish