Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Learning path 1: Get started on a DevOps transformation journey

• Introduction to DevOps.
• Choose the right project.
• Describe team structures.
• Choose the DevOps tools.
• Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards.
• Introduction to source control
• Describe types of source control systems
• Work with Azure Repos and GitHub

Learning Path 2: Development for enterprise DevOps

• Structure your Git Repo.
• Manage Git branches and workflows
• Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos.
• Explore Git hooks.
• Plan foster inner source
• Manage Git repositories
• Identify technical debt

Learning Path 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

• Explore Azure Pipelines
• Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools.
• Describe pipelines and concurrency
• Explore Continuous integration
• Implement a pipeline strategy
• Integrate with Azure Pipelines
• Introduction to GitHub Actions.
• Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
• Design a container build strategy

Learning Path 4: Design and implement a release strategy

• Introduction to continuous delivery
• Create a release pipeline.
• Explore release strategy recommendations
• Provision and test environments
• Manage and modularize tasks and templates
• Multi-stage YAML
• Automate inspection of health

Learning Path 5: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

• Introduction to deployment patterns
• Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
• Implement canary releases and dark launching
• Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment.
• Integrate with identity management systems
• Manage application configuration data.

Learning Path 6: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

• Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Implement Bicep
• Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
• Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Learning Path 7: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance

• Introduction to Secure DevOps.
• Implement open-source software
• Software Composition Analysis
• Static analyzers.
• OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers.
• Security Monitoring and Governance

Learning Path 8: Design and implement a dependency management strategy

• Explore package dependencies
• Understand package management
• Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts.
• Implement a versioning strategy
• Introduction to GitHub Packages

Learning Path 9: Implement continuous feedback

• Implement tools to track usage and flow
• Develop monitor and status dashboards
• Share knowledge within teams
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture.

Skills gained