AZ-400 Designing and Implementing DevOps Training

About Course

The course aligns with the new exam objectives

Configure processes and communications
Design and implement source control
Design and implement build and release pipelines
Develop a security and compliance plan
Implement an instrumentation strategy

Version 1.1 Mar 2021

Updated chapters on working with GitHub – This is to reflect the changes made to the naming convention of the main branch. GitHub now refers to the master branch as the main branch.
Updated the chapters on working with Git repositories from Visual Studio 2019 – With the newer version of Visual Studio 2019, the way on working with Git Repositories has changed.

This course is designed for students who want to attempt the Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

This course has contents for the Exam AZ-400

The objectives covered in this course are

Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)
Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10%)
Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)
Manage source control (10-15%)
Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)
Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)
Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy (10-15%)

In this course , you will learn aspects which includes the following

Working with Azure Boards
How to work with Git – Here there are extensive labs on working with Git repositories. Here you will also learn how to work with Azure Repos
How to create and implement Build pipelines using Azure Pipelines
How to use Jenkins for configuration management
Implementing security in your continuous pipeline
Building your infrastructure with ARM templates. There are also chapters on how to work with Terraform
Releasing your applications with Azure Release Pipelines

Course Content

Introduction
This course will help you to demonstrate skills such as Developing, Implementing, Managing source control of Azure DevOps applications.

About the course
Introduction to DevOps
The Different DevOps tools

Implementation and Instrumentation Strategy

Demo – Creating a resource – Azure Virtual Machine
Lab – Create a Virtual Machine
Demo – Creating a resource – Azure storage account
Labs – Create a Storage Account
Demo – Azure Monitor – Metrics
Demo – Azure Monitor – Activity Logs
Demo – Azure Monitor – Alerts
Azure Monitor – Dynamic thresholds
Demo – Azure Log Analytics
Lab – Log Analytics Workspace
Demo – Azure Log Analytics – Queries
Lab – Configure queries across multiple Log Analytics Workspaces
Azure Log Analytics – Managing Access control
Demo – Azure Diagnostics – Virtual Machine
Demo – Creating a resource – Azure Web Apps
Lab – Create a Web App
Demo – Application Insights
Demo – Using another monitoring solution
Visual Studio App Center
Demo – Using dashboards in Azure Monitor

Develop a Security & Compliance Plan

Quick review on Azure AD
Demo – Managing your Azure AD users and groups
Demo – Using Multi-Factor Authentication
Demo – Conditional Access policies
Demo – Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
Demo – Azure Key Vault
Lab – Key Rotation in Azure Key Vault
Lab – Azure Key Vault Backup
Demo – Service Principal
Demo – Managed Service Identity
Azure Security Center
Demo – Azure Policies
Lab – Creating Azure Policies

Design & Implement Source Control

Using Source Control
Demo – Azure Repos – Team Foundation Version Control
Demo – Azure Repos – Git
Demo – Azure Repos – Git Branches
Demo – Azure Repos – Pull requests
Demo – Visual Studio – Azure Repos – Git
Code Reviews
Demo – GitHub Code Scanning
Demo – Usage of Azure Scale Sets
Lab – Creating Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Demo – Using queues for scaling

Configure Processes & Communications

Design & Implementation of Build and Release Pipelines – Automation

What is Continuous Integration
What are Azure Pipelines
Demo – Azure Pipelines
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Triggering a build
Demo – Azure Pipelines – GitHub
Demo – Azure Pipeline – Agents
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Self-hosted agent
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Self-hosted agent – Build Pipeline
Demo – Using Sonar Cloud
Demo – Using White Source Bolt
Demo – Source Code Analysis
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Container Jobs
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Slack
Demo – Setting up Jenkins
Demo – Setting up project in Jenkins
Demo – Jenkins – Azure Repos
Demo – Azure Test Plans
Demo – Azure Test – Test and Feedback

Design & Implementation of Build and Release Pipelines – Templates & Pipelines

Continuous Delivery
Azure Release Pipelines
Demo – Azure Release Pipelines – Azure Web Apps – Setup
Demo – Azure Release Pipelines – Azure Web Apps – Continuous Delivery
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Azure App Configuration
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Secrets Managements
Azure Release Pipelines – Approvals and Gates
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Using Approvals
Demo – Azure Pipelines – Gates
Demo – Azure Release Pipelines – Multiple stages
Demo – Azure Release Pipelines – Deployment Groups
Demo – Azure Release Pipelines – Push Docker Image
Demo – Azure Container Registry Tasks
Lab – Azure Container Registry
Demo – Azure Release Pipelines – Azure Kubernetes
Lab – Understanding Azure Kubernetes Service
Lab – Implement Azure Kubernetes Service
Demo – ARM Templates – Azure Key Vault
Demo – Nested templates
Package Management
Azure Artifacts

Design & Implementation of Build and Release Pipelines – Deployment Environment

Deployment Strategy
Demo – Azure Web Apps – Deployment slots
Demo – Azure Traffic Manager – Deployment strategy
Infrastructure Automation
Demo – Custom Script Extensions
Lab – Virtual Machine Scale Sets – Custom Script Extensions
Demo – PowerShell DSC
Demo – Using Resource Graph Explorer
The Azure Load Balancer Service
Demo – Using the Azure Load Balancer
Lab – Creating a Basic Load Balancer
Demo – Usage of Azure Traffic Manager
Lab – Creating a Traffic Manager Profile
Understanding your SLA
Recovery strategies

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AZ-400 Designing and Implementing DevOps Training

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Introduction This course will help you to demonstrate skills such as Developing, Implementing, Managing source control of Azure DevOps applications.

About the course

Introduction to DevOps

The Different DevOps tools

Implementation and Instrumentation Strategy

Demo – Creating a resource – Azure Virtual Machine

Lab – Create a Virtual Machine

Demo – Creating a resource – Azure storage account

Labs – Create a Storage Account

Demo – Azure Monitor – Metrics

Demo – Azure Monitor – Activity Logs

Demo – Azure Monitor – Alerts

Azure Monitor – Dynamic thresholds

Demo – Azure Log Analytics

Lab – Log Analytics Workspace

Demo – Azure Log Analytics – Queries

Lab – Configure queries across multiple Log Analytics Workspaces

Azure Log Analytics – Managing Access control

Demo – Azure Diagnostics – Virtual Machine

Demo – Creating a resource – Azure Web Apps

Lab – Create a Web App

Demo – Application Insights

Demo – Using another monitoring solution

Visual Studio App Center

Demo – Using dashboards in Azure Monitor

Develop a Security & Compliance Plan

Quick review on Azure AD

Demo – Managing your Azure AD users and groups

Demo – Using Multi-Factor Authentication

Demo – Conditional Access policies

Demo – Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

Demo – Azure Key Vault

Lab – Key Rotation in Azure Key Vault

Lab – Azure Key Vault Backup

Demo – Service Principal

Demo – Managed Service Identity

Azure Security Center

Demo – Azure Policies

Lab – Creating Azure Policies

Design & Implement Source Control

Using Source Control

Demo – Azure Repos – Team Foundation Version Control

Demo – Azure Repos – Git

Demo – Azure Repos – Git Branches

Demo – Azure Repos – Pull requests

Demo – Visual Studio – Azure Repos – Git

Code Reviews

Demo – GitHub Code Scanning

Demo – Usage of Azure Scale Sets

Lab – Creating Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Demo – Using queues for scaling

Configure Processes & Communications

Starting with Azure DevOps services

What are Azure Boards

Demo – Working with Azure Boards

Demo – Azure Boards – Team users

Demo – Azure Boards – Charts

Demo – Azure Boards – Slack

Design & Implementation of Build and Release Pipelines – Automation

What is Continuous Integration

What are Azure Pipelines

Demo – Azure Pipelines

Demo – Azure Pipelines – Triggering a build

Demo – Azure Pipelines – GitHub

Demo – Azure Pipeline – Agents

Demo – Azure Pipelines – Self-hosted agent

Demo – Azure Pipelines – Self-hosted agent – Build Pipeline

Demo – Using Sonar Cloud

Demo – Using White Source Bolt

Demo – Source Code Analysis

Demo – Azure Pipelines – Container Jobs

Demo – Azure Pipelines – Slack

Demo – Setting up Jenkins

Demo – Setting up project in Jenkins

Demo – Jenkins – Azure Repos

Demo – Azure Test Plans

Introduction
This course will help you to demonstrate skills such as Developing, Implementing, Managing source control of Azure DevOps applications.