Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
DevOps engineers must have experience with administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas.
Overview
DevOps engineers are developers or infrastructure administrators who also have subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations. DevOps engineers must have experience with administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. They should be familiar with both Azure DevOps and GitHub.
Certification
“It’s not the certificate that matters the most but preparing for the Industry”
- Participation certificate for all the attendees.
- Deserving performers will be awarded Merit certificates.
- Participants will receive the certificate with a unique code which can be verified online.
- Internship opportunity on Course Completion
Prerequisite
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of the
following:
- Cloud computing concepts include understanding PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS
implementations. - Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at
least one of these areas
Eligibility
- Strong understanding of NetScaler ADC administration and traffic management. Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and networking concepts.
- Familiarity with load balancing, authentication, and web application security is recommended.
- Basic experience with enterprise application delivery and network security is helpful.
Topics to be covered on this course
- Module 1: Get started on a DevOps transformation journey
- Explain how to structure Git Repos
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Use GitHub Flow for collaboration
- Labs
- Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
- Version Control with Git in Azure Repos
- Module 2: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines
- Configure agents for use in Azure Pipelines
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Labs
- Configure Agent Pools and Understand Pipeline Styles
- Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Module 3: Design and implement a release strategy
- 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
- Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
- Differentiate between a release and a deployment
- Labs
- Implementing GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
- Module 4: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines
- Describe deployment patterns
- Implement blue-green deployment
- Implement canary release
- Implement progressive exposure deployment
- Labs
- Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
- Control Deployments using Release Gates
- Module 5: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
- Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
- Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, Azure CLI, DSC and Azure Automation
- Labs
- Set Up and Run Functional Tests
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
- Module 6: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance
- Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
- Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
- Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
- Labs
- Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags
- Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
- Module 7: Design and implement a dependency management strategy
- Recommend artifact management tools and practices
- Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
- Migrate and consolidate artifacts
- Migrate and integrate source control measures
- Labs
- Package Management with Azure Artifacts
- Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing
- Module 8: Implement continuous feedback
- Develop monitoring and status dashboards
- Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
- Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team’s work management
- Labs
- Share Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
