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WSQ - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

Sessions 4 days
Duration 32 hrs
Level Intermediate
Assessment 2 hrs

Venue

12 Woodlands Square #07-85/86/87 Woods Square Tower 1, Singapore 737715. 5 mins walk from Woodlands (NS9) MRT station.

The venue is disabled-friendly.

TSC Title: Solution Architecture
TSC Code: ICT-DES-4006-1.1

By end of the course, learners should be able to:

LO1: Develop a Microsoft DevOps architectural proof of concept.
LO2: Identify the technical and practical requirements in a Microsoft DevOps setup.
LO3: Develop a solution architecture within Microsoft DevOps.
LO4: Prepare a technical blueprint for a Microsoft DevOps solution for security and storage.
LO5: Demonstrate Microsoft DevOps solution for a specific business problem.
LO6: Implement regular monitoring of the Microsoft DevOps system and perform necessary troubleshooting.

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WSQ - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

Course Code: TGS-2024042605

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PSEA
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This comprehensive course on Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions equips participants with the expertise to develop a Microsoft DevOps architectural proof of concept, identify technical requirements, and architect a solution within Microsoft DevOps frameworks. Through a blend of theoretical knowledge and practical exercises, learners will delve into the creation of a technical blueprint focusing on security and storage solutions, and demonstrate the application of Microsoft DevOps solutions to real-world business problems. The curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including the fundamentals of DevOps, choosing the right project, agile development practices, Azure DevOps, GitHub, continuous integration and deployment with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions, infrastructure as code, and strategies for dependency management. Additionally, the course emphasizes the importance of implementing regular monitoring and troubleshooting of the Microsoft DevOps system to ensure optimal performance.

Building upon a foundation of agile methodologies and DevOps tools selection, the course further explores advanced areas such as developing for enterprise DevOps, managing infrastructure as code using Azure, and designing a release strategy. Learners will gain hands-on experience with Azure Resource Manager templates, Azure CLI, Azure Automation, and GitHub Packages, alongside an understanding of implementing continuous feedback mechanisms and validating code bases for compliance. By the end of this course, participants will be well-prepared to design and implement efficient, secure, and scalable Microsoft DevOps solutions, aligning technical capabilities with business objectives for enhanced productivity and competitiveness.

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Full Fee 2,000.00 Before GST

GST 180.00 9% of fee

Baseline Nett 1,180.00 SG/PR age 21+ · 50% funded

MCES / SME Nett 780.00 SG age 40+ · 70% funded

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Eligible Singapore-registered companies can tap on $10000 SFEC to cover out-of-pocket expenses.Click here to submit SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit

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Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SFC to offset course fee payable after funding but the $4,000 Additional SFC (Mid-Career Support) cannot be used. Click here for SkillsFuture Credit submission

UTAP

Eligible NTUC members can apply for 50% of the unfunded fee from UTAP, capped up to $250/year and for members aged 40 and above, capped up to $500/year. Click here to submit UTAP

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Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their PSEA funds to offset course fee payable after funding.

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Course Details

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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