Course Details
LU1 Get started on a DevOps transformation journey
Topic 1 Introduction to DevOps
- What is DevOps?
- Explore the DevOps journey
- Identify transformation teams
- Explore shared goals and define timelines
Topic 2 Choose the right project
- Explore greenfield and brownfield projects
- Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects
- Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement
- Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
- Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)
Topic 3 Describe team structures
- Explore agile development practices
- Explore principles of agile development
- Define organization structure for agile practices
- Explore ideal DevOps team members
- Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration
- Select tools and processes for agile practices
Topic 4 Choose the DevOps tools
- What is Azure DevOps?
- What is GitHub?
- Explore an authorization and access strategy
- Migrate or integrate existing work management tools
- Migrate or integrate existing test management tools
- Design a license management strategy
Topic 5 Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Introduction to GitHub Projects and Project boards
- Introduction to Azure Boards
- Link GitHub to Azure Boards
- Configure GitHub Projects
- Manage work with GitHub Project boards
- Customize Project views
- Collaborate using team discussions
- Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
Topic 6 Introduction to source control
- Explore DevOps foundational practices
- What is source control?
- Explore benefits of source control
- Explore best practices for source control
Topic 7 Describe types of source control systems
- Understand centralized source control
- Understand distributed source control
- Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control
- Examine and choose Git
- Understand objections to using Git
- Describe working with Git locally
Topic 8 Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
- Introduction to Azure Repos
- Introduction to GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
- Use GIT-TFS
- Develop online with GitHub Codespaces
LU2 Development for enterprise DevOps
Topic 9 Structure your Git Repo
- Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
- Implement a change log
Topic 10 Manage Git branches and workflows
- Explore branch workflow types
- Explore feature branch workflow
- Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
- Explore GitHub flow
- Explore fork workflow
- Version Control with Git in Azure Repos
Topic 11 Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
- Collaborate with pull requests
- Exercise - Azure Repos collaborating with pull requests
- Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals
Topic 12 Identify technical debt
- Examine code quality
- Examine complexity and quality metrics
- Introduction to technical debt
- Measure and manage technical debt
- Integrate other code quality tools
- Plan effective code reviews
Topic 13 Explore Git hooks
- Introduction to Git hooks
- Implement Git hooks
Topic 14 Plan foster inner source
- Explore foster inner source
- Implement the fork workflow
- Describe inner source with forks
Topic 15 Manage Git repositories
- Work with large repositories
- Purge repository data
- Manage releases with GitHub Repos
- Automate release notes with GitHub
LU3 Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
Topic 16 Explore Azure Pipelines
- Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
- Describe Azure Pipelines
- Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
Topic 17 Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
- Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
- Explore job types
- Introduction to agent pools
- Explore predefined agent pool
- Understand typical situations for agent pools
- Communicate with Azure Pipelines
- Communicate to deploy to target servers
- Examine other considerations
- Describe security of agent pools
- Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
Topic 18 Describe pipelines and concurrency
- Understand parallel jobs
- Estimate parallel jobs
- Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
- Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
- Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
Topic 19 Explore continuous integration
- Introduction to continuous integration
- Learn the four pillars of continuous integration
- Explore benefits of continuous integration
- Describe build properties
- Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Topic 20 Implement a pipeline strategy
- Configure agent demands
- Implement multi-agent builds
- Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipeline
Topic 21 Integrate with Azure Pipelines
- Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
- Understand the pipeline structure
- Detail templates
- Explore YAML resources
- Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
Topic 22 Introduction to GitHub Actions
- What are Actions?
- Explore Actions flow
- Understand workflows
- Describe standard workflow syntax elements
- Explore events
- Explore jobs
- Explore runners
- Examine release and test an action
Topic 23 Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
- Describe continuous integration with actions
- Examine environment variables
- Share artifacts between jobs
- Examine Workflow badges
- Describe best practices for creating actions
- Mark releases with Git tags
- Create encrypted secrets
- Use secrets in a workflow
- Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD
Topic 24 Design a container build strategy
- Examine structure of containers
- Work with Docker containers
- Understand Dockerfile core concepts
- Examine multi-stage dockerfiles
- Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
- Explore Azure container-related services
- Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
LU4 Design and implement a release strategy
Topic 25 Introduction to continuous delivery
- Explore traditional IT development cycle
- What is continuous delivery?
- Move to continuous delivery
- Understand releases and deployments
- Understand release process versus release
Topic 26 Create a release pipeline
- Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
- Explore release pipelines
- Explore artifact sources
- Choose the appropriate artifact source
- Exercise - select an artifact source
- Examine considerations for deployment to stages
- Exercise - set up stages
- Explore build and release tasks
- Explore custom build and release tasks
- Explore release jobs
- Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
Topic 27 Explore release recommendations
- Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
- Exercise - select your delivery and deployment cadence
- Explore release approvals
- Exercise - set up manual approvals
- Explore release gates
- Use release gates to protect quality
- Control Deployments using Release Gates
Topic 28 Provision and test environments
- Provision and configure target environments
- Exercise - set up service connections
- Configure automated integration and functional test automation
- Understand Shift-left
- Set up and run availability tests
- Explore Azure Load Testing
- Set up and run functional tests
Topic 29 Manage and modularize tasks and templates
- Examine task groups
- Exercise - create and manage task groups
- Explore variables in release pipelines
- Understand variable groups
- Exercise - create and manage variable groups
Topic 30 Automate inspection of health
- Automate inspection of health
- Explore events and notifications
- Explore service hooks
- Exercise - set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline
- Configure Azure DevOps notifications
- Configure GitHub notifications
- Explore how to measure quality of your release process
- Examine release notes and documentation
- Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
- Explore common release management tools
LU5 Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines
Topic 31 Introduction to deployment patterns
- Explore microservices architecture
- Examine classical deployment patterns
- Understand modern deployment patterns
Topic 32 Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
- What is blue-green deployment?
- Explore deployment slots
- Exercise - set up a blue-green deployment
- Introduction to feature toggles
- Describe feature toggle maintenance
Topic 33 Implement canary releases and dark launching
- Explore canary releases
- Examine Traffic Manager
- Understand dark launching
Topic 34 Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
- What is A/B testing?
- Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
- Exercise - Ring-based deployment
Topic 35 Integrate with identity management systems
- Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
- Explore service principals
- Explore Managed Identity
Topic 36 Manage application configuration data
- Rethink application configuration data
- Explore separation of concerns
- Understand external configuration store patterns
- Introduction to Azure App Configuration
- Examine Key-value pairs
- Examine App configuration feature management
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
- Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
- Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags
LU6 Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
Topic 37 Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Explore environment deployment
- Examine environment configuration
- Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
- Understand idempotent configuration
Topic 38 Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
- Explore template components
- Manage dependencies
- Modularize templates
- Manage secrets in templates
- Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
Topic 39 Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
- What is Azure CLI?
- Work with Azure CLI
- Exercise - Run templates using Azure CLI
Topic 40 Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
- Create automation accounts
- What is a runbook?
- Understand automation shared resources
- Explore runbook gallery
- Examine webhooks
- Explore source control integration
- Explore PowerShell workflows
- Create a workflow
- Explore hybrid management
- Exercise - Create and run a workflow runbook
- Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
- Topic 35 Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Understand configuration drift
- Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
- Examine DSC configuration file
- Exercise - Import and compile
- Exercise - Onboard machines for management
- Explore hybrid management
- Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
Topic 41 Implement Bicep
- What is Bicep?
- Install Bicep
- Exercise - Create Bicep templates
- Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
- Exercise - Deploy a Bicep file from Azure Pipelines
- Exercise - Deploy a Bicep file from GitHub workflows
LU7 Design and implement a dependency management strategy
Topic 42 Explore package dependencies
- What is dependency management?
- Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
- Identify dependencies
- Understand source and package componentization
- Decompose your system
- Scan your codebase for dependencies
Topic 43 Understand package management
- Explore packages
- Understand package feeds
- Explore package feed managers
- Explore common public package sources
- Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources
- Consume packages
- Introduction to Azure Artifacts
- Publish packages
- Package management with Azure Artifacts
Topic 44 Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts
- Identify existing artifact repositories
- Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
- Secure access to package feeds
- Examine roles
- Examine permissions
- Examine authentication
Topic 45 Implement a versioning strategy
- Understand versioning of artifacts
- Explore semantic versioning
- Examine release views
- Promote packages
- Exercise - Promote a package
- Explore best practices for versioning
- Exercise - Push from the pipeline
Topic 46 Introduction to GitHub Packages
- Publish packages
- Install a package
- Delete and restore a package
- Explore package access control and visibility
LU8 Implement continuous feedback
Topic 47 Implement tools to track usage and flow
- Understand the inner loop
- Introduction to continuous monitoring
- Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Explore Application Insights
- Implement Application Insights
- Exercise - Add Application Insights to an ASP.NET core application
- Monitor application performance with Application Insights
Topic 48 Develop monitor and status dashboards
- Explore Azure Dashboards
- Examine view designer in Azure Monitor
- Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
- Explore Power BI
- Build your own custom application
Topic 49 Share knowledge within teams
- Share acquired knowledge within development teams
- Introduction to Azure DevOps project wikis
- Integrate with Azure Boards
- Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
Topic 50 Design processes to automate application analytics
- Explore rapid responses and augmented search
- Integrate telemetry
- Examine monitoring tools and technologies
Topic 51 Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
- Examine when get a notification
- Explore how to fix it
- Explore smart detection notifications
- Improve performance
- Understand server response time degradation
- Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
- Examine blameless retrospective
- Develop a just culture
LU9 Implement security and validate code bases for compliance
Topic 52 Introduction to Secure DevOps
- Describe SQL injection attack
- Understand DevSecOps
- Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
- Explore key validation points
- Explore continuous security validation
- Understand threat modeling
- Exercise threat modeling
Topic 53 Implement open-source software
- Explore how software is built
- What is open-source software
- Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
- Introduction to open-source licenses
- Explore common open-source licenses
- Examine license implications and ratings
Topic 54 Software Composition Analysis
- Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
- Explore software composition analysis (SCA)
- Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines
- Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
- Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
- Examine tools for assess package security and license rate
- Interpret alerts from scanner tools
- Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline
Topic 55 Static analyzers
- Explore SonarCloud
- Explore CodeQL in GitHub
- Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps
Topic 56 OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
- Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices
- Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test
- Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs
Topic 57 Security Monitoring and Governance
- Implement pipeline security
- Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
- Explore Azure Policy
- Understand policies
- Explore initiatives
- Explore resource locks
- Explore Azure Blueprints
- Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
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Minimum Entry Requirement
Knowledge and Skills
- Able to operate using computer functions
- Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)
Attitude
- Positive Learning Attitude
- Enthusiastic Learner
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Target Age Group: 18-65 years old
Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement
Software:
TBD
Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops
Job Roles
- DevOps Engineer
- Software Developer
- Systems Administrator
- IT Project Manager
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Release Manager
- Operations Manager
- Security Engineer
- Application Developer
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- IT Operations Analyst
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Technical Architect
- Full Stack Developer
Trainers
Ajay B : Ajay is a ACLP certied trainer. Ajay is a vendor neutral cloud consultant and training expert on Cloud , with several Private cloud deployments in India and cloud migration knowledge .He is a Cloud and DevOps enthusiast with consulting, deployment and training expertise on OpenStack, AWS, Google Cloud ,Azure, Jenkins, and Docker
Ajay has 18 + years Industry experience as IT entrepreneur and 9 years in Cloud and Devops technical consulting, implementation and training area, currently working in capacity of Vice President – Cloud and Devops services handling singapore and India
Anil Bidari: Anil is a ACLP certified trainer. He is an Enterprise Cloud and DevOps Consultant , responsible for helping clients to move Virtual data centre to Private Cloud based on OpenStack and Public Cloud ( AWS, Azure and Google cloud) . Consulting and training experience on Devops tool chain like github , Jenkins, Sonarqube, Docker & kubernetes, Cloud foundry, Openshift, Ansible and SaltStack. Lot of my Role is involved design and implementation of a solution and training