Duration
3 days
Overview
This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn on Azure DevOps Repo & Azure Pipelines.
Module 1: Getting Started with Source Control Lesson
- What is Source Control
- Benefits of Source Control
- Types of Source Control Systems
- Introduction to Azure Repos
- Introduction to GitHub
- Migrating from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos
Lab : Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the benefits of using Source Control
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
Module 2: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps Lesson
- How to Structure Your Git Repo
- Git Branching Workflows
- Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
- Why Care About Git Hooks
- Fostering Inner Source
- Managing Git Repositories
Lab : Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain how to structure Git repos
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Leverage Git hooks for automation
- Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
Module 3: Configuring Azure Pipelines Lesson
- The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps
- Azure Pipelines
- Evaluate use of Hosted versus Self-Hosted Agents
- Agent Pools
- Pipelines and Concurrency
- Azure DevOps and Open-Source Projects (Public Projects)
- Azure Pipelines YAML versus Visual Designer
Lab : Configuring Agent Pools and Understanding Pipeline Styles
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
Module 4: Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines Lesson
- Continuous Integration Overview
- Implementing a Build Strategy
- Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
- Set Up Self-Hosted Agents
Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
Module 5: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy Lesson
- Packaging Dependencies
- Package Management
- Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
- Package Security
- Implementing a Versioning Strategy
Lab : Package Management with Azure Artifacts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Recommend artifact management tools and practices
- Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
- Migrate and consolidate artifacts
- Migrate and integrate source control measures
Module 6: Designing a Release Strategy Lesson
- Introduction to Continuous Delivery
- Release Strategy Recommendations
- Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
- Choosing the Right Release Management Tool
Lab : Controlling Deployments using Release GatesLab : Creating a Release Dashboard
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Differentiate between a release and a deployment
- Define the components of a release pipeline
- Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
- Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
- Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
- Choose a release management tool
Module 7: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines Lesson
- Create a Release Pipeline
- Provision and Configure Environments
- Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
- Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
- Automate Inspection of Health
Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- 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 multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
- Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
- Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
- List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using alerts, service hooks, and reports
Module 8: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms Lesson
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Design Practices to Measure End-User Satisfaction
- Design Processes to Capture and Analyze User Feedback
- Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
- Managing Alerts
- Blameless Retrospectives and a Just Culture
Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Define Site Reliability Engineering
- Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
- Design processes to automate application analytics
- Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
- Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
Module 9: Validating Code Bases for Compliance Lesson
- Open-Source Software
- Managing Security and Compliance Policies
- Integrating License and Vulnerability Scans
Lab : Managing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
- Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
- Manage organizational security and compliance policies
- Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
- Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.