Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

5 Days

Intermediate

Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bharu

Program Overview

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices.

Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, implement and manage build infrastructure, and consolidate artifacts. The course also covers designing a dependency management strategy, managing secrets, implementing continuous integration, developing a container build strategy, designing a release strategy, setting up a release management workflow, implementing deployment patterns, and optimizing feedback mechanisms.

Programme Module

Planning for DevOpsLessons

Getting started with Source ControlLessons

Scaling Git for enterprise DevOpsLessons

Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy Lessons

Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure PipelinesLessons

Managing Application Config and Secrets Lessons

Managing Code Quality and Security Policies Lessons

Implementing a Container Build Strategy Lessons

Design a Release Strategy Lessons

Set up a Release Management Workflow Lessons

Implement an appropriate deployment pattern Lessons

Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams Lessons

Programme Objectives

Plan transformation with shared goals and timelines
Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
Create a team and agile organization structure
Describe the benefits of using source control
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Scale Git for enterprise DevOps
Recommend artifact management tools and practices
Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
Migrate and consolidate artifacts
Migrate and integrate source control measures
Manage application configuration and secrets
Develop a project quality strategy
Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules
Implement and manage build infrastructure
Explain why continuous integration matters
Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps
Manage code quality including technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
Manage security policies using open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt
Implement a container strategy and explain containers vs virtual machines
Implement containers using Docker
Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance
Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
Configure secure access to package feeds
Inspect codebase to identify dependencies that can be converted to packages
Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions
Refactor build pipelines to implement version strategy and package publishing
Manage security and compliance
Differentiate between a release and a deployment
Define components of a release pipeline
Explain considerations for designing a release strategy
Classify a release versus a release process and control quality
Describe release gates, release notes, and documentation handling
Explain deployment patterns in traditional and modern approaches
Choose a release management tool
Understand Azure DevOps release terminology
Describe build and release tasks and available deployment tasks
Classify agents, agent queues, and agent pools
Explain need for multiple release jobs in a pipeline
Differentiate multi-agent and multi-configuration release jobs
Use release and stage variables in pipelines
Deploy to environments securely using service connections
Embed testing in pipelines
Monitor pipeline and release health using alerts, service hooks, and reports
Create release gates
Implement Blue-Green deployment
Implement Canary release
Implement Progressive exposure deployment
Configure crash report integration for client applications
Develop monitoring and status dashboards
Route client application crash report data
Track system usage, feature usage, and user flows
Integrate ticketing systems with DevOps workflows
Implement mobile DevOps strategy
Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
Deploy and manage infrastructure using ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI
Describe Azure deployment models and services
Deploy and configure managed Kubernetes clusters
Use third-party tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform
Define infrastructure and configuration strategy for release pipelines
Implement compliance and security in application infrastructure
Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
Capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools
Analyze alerts to establish baselines
Analyze telemetry to establish baselines
Perform live site reviews for system outages
Tune and reduce non-actionable alerts

Who Should Attend

DevOps Engineers
Software Developers
Cloud Engineers
Azure Administrators
Build & Release Engineers
Site Reliability Engineers (SRE)
Infrastructure & Platform Engineers
Solution Architects
IT Operations Professionals

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