AZ-400: Design and Implement Microsoft DevOps solutions

This course provides the knowledge and skills to implement DevOps processes and practices of continuous integration.

Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms

Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. They are familiar with both Azure administration and development and must be expert in at least one of these areas.

Fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.

By the end of this course, students will be able to develop an instrumentation strategy, a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy and a security and compliance plan. They will be able to define and implement continuous integration and a continuous delivery and release management strategy. They will be able to facilitate communication and collaboration and manage source control.

Implementing DevOps Development Processes

• Getting started with Source Control
• Scaling git for enterprise DevOps
• Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure
• Managing application config & secrets
• Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

Implementing Continuous Integration

• Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
• Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Implementing Continuous Delivery

• Design a Release Strategy
• Set up a Release Management Workflow
• Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Implementing Dependency Management

• Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
• Manage security and compliance

Implementing Application Infrastructure

• Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
• Azure Deployment Models and Services
• Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
• Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure
• Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

Implementing Continuous Feedback

• Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
• Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
• Optimize feedback mechanisms

Designing a DevOps Strategy

• Planning for DevOps
• Planning for Quality and Security
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools