As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations.
Your responsibilities for this role include delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and feedback. You design and implement flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, and automation.
As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:
- Developers
- Site reliability engineers
- Azure administrators
- Security engineers
You must have experience both administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should also have experience implementing both GitHub and Azure DevOps solutions.
- 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
Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of the following:
- Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
- Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.
- Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
- Lesson: Introduction to DevOps.
- Lesson: Choose the right project.
- Lesson: Describe team structures.
- Lesson: Choose the DevOps tools.
- Lesson: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards.
- Lesson: Introduction to source control.
- Lesson: Describe types of source control systems.
- Lesson: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Structure your Git Repo.
- Lesson: Manage Git branches and workflows.
- Lesson: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos.
- Lesson: Explore Git hooks.
- Lesson: Plan foster inner source.
- Lesson: Manage Git repositories.
- Lesson: Identify technical debt.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Explore Azure Pipelines.
- Lesson: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools.
- Lesson: Describe pipelines and concurrency.
- Lesson: Explore Continuous integration.
- Lesson: Implement a pipeline strategy.
- Lesson: Integrate with Azure Pipelines.
- Lesson: Introduction to GitHub Actions.
- Lesson: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions.
- Lesson: Design a container build strategy.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Introduction to continuous delivery.
- Lesson: Create a release pipeline.
- Lesson: Explore release strategy recommendations.
- Lesson: Provision and test environments.
- Lesson: Manage and modularize tasks and templates.
- Lesson: Multi-stage YAML.
- Lesson: Automate inspection of health.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Introduction to deployment patterns.
- Lesson: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles.
- Lesson: Implement canary releases and dark launching.
- Lesson: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment.
- Lesson: Integrate with identity management systems.
- Lesson: Manage application configuration data.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management.
- Lesson: Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates.
- Lesson: Implement Bicep.
- Lesson: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI.
- Lesson: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps.
- Lesson: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC).
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Introduction to Secure DevOps.
- Lesson: Implement open-source software.
- Lesson: Software Composition Analysis.
- Lesson: Static analyzers.
- Lesson: OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers.
- Lesson: Security Monitoring and Governance.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways
- Lesson: Explore package dependencies.
- Lesson: Understand package management.
- Lesson: Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts.
- Lesson: Implement a versioning strategy.
- Lesson: Introduction to GitHub Packages.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
- Lesson: Implement tools to track usage and flow.
- Lesson: Develop monitor and status dashboards.
- Lesson: Share knowledge within teams.
- Lesson: Design processes to automate application analytics.
- Lesson: Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture.
- Labs & Learning Path review and takeaways.
To achieve the role-based certification, you must:
Pass the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam
Please reach out to info@industechservices.com after your course to obtain your exam voucher.
