1. Introduction to DevOps
This module explores the key areas that organizations must apply to start their DevOps transformation Journey, change the team's mindset, and define timelines and goals.
Click here to know more
2. Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
This module introduces you to GitHub Projects, GitHub Project Boards and Azure Boards. It explores ways to link Azure Boards and GitHub, configure GitHub Projects and Project views, and manage work with GitHub Projects.
Click here to know more
3. Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
This module explores Git branching types, concepts, and models for the continuous delivery process. It helps companies defining their branching strategy and organization.
Click here to know more
4. Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
This module presents pull requests for collaboration and code reviews using Azure DevOps and GitHub mobile for pull request approvals. It helps understanding how pull requests works and how to configure them.
Click here to know more
5. Explore Git hooks
This module describes Git hooks and their usage during the development process, implementation, and behavior.
Click here to know more
6. Plan foster inner source
This module explains how to use Git to foster inner sources across the organization, implement Fork and its workflows.
Click here to know more
7. Manage and configure repositories
This module explores how to work with large repositories, purge repository data and manage and automate release notes using GitHub.
Click here to know more
8. Identify technical debt
This module examines technical debt, complexity, quality metrics, and plans for effective code reviews and code quality validation.
Click here to know more
9. Explore Azure Pipelines
This module introduces Azure Pipelines concepts and explains key terms and components of the tool, helping you decide your pipeline strategy and responsibilities.
Click here to know more
10. Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
This module explores the differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, details job types, and configures agent pools. Understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage their security.
Click here to know more
11. Describe pipelines and concurrency
This module describes parallel jobs and how to estimate their usage. Also, it presents Azure Pipelines for open-source projects, explores Visual Designer and YAML pipelines.
Click here to know more
12. Design and implement a pipeline strategy
This module describes pipeline strategies, configuring them, implementing multi-agent builds, and what source controls Azure Pipelines supports.
Click here to know more
13. Integrate with Azure Pipelines
This module details Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure, templates, YAML resources, and how to use multiple repositories in your pipeline.
Click here to know more
14. Introduction to GitHub Actions
In this module, you learn what GitHub Actions, action flow, and its elements are. Understand what events are, explore jobs and runners, and how to read console output from actions.
Click here to know more
15. Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
This module details continuous integration using GitHub Actions and describes environment variables, artifacts, best practices, and how to secure your pipeline using encrypted variables and secrets.
Click here to know more
16. Design a container build strategy
This module helps you plan a container build strategy, explains containers and their structure, introduces Docker, microservices, Azure Container Registry, and related services.
Click here to know more
17. Create a release pipeline
This module describes Azure Pipelines capabilities, build, and release tasks.
Click here to know more
18. Explore release recommendations
This module explores the critical release strategy recommendations that organizations must consider when designing automated deployments and explains how to define components of a release pipeline and artifact sources, create approves, and configure release gates.
Click here to know more
19. Provision and test environments
This module details target environment provisioning, service connections creation process, and test infrastructure setup. Learn how to configure functional test automation and run availability tests.
Click here to know more
20. Manage and modularize tasks and templates
This module describes the creation of task and variable groups and using release variables and stage variables in your pipeline.
Click here to know more
21. Automate inspection of health
This module describes how to automate the inspection of health events, configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub, set up service hooks to monitor pipelines, measure the quality of your release process, and detail release gates for quality purposes. You examine release management tools and details about them.
Click here to know more
22. Introduction to deployment patterns
This module introduces deployment patterns and explains microservices architecture to help improve the deployment cycle and examine classical and modern deployment patterns.
Click here to know more
23. Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
This module describes the blue-green deployment process and introduces feature toggle techniques to implement in the development process.
Click here to know more
24. Implement canary releases and dark launching
This module describes deployment strategies around canary releases and dark launching and examines traffic managers.
Click here to know more
25. Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
This module introduces A/B test and progressive exposure deployment concepts and explores CI/CD with deployment rings--ring-based deployment.
Click here to know more
26. Integrate with identity management systems
This module describes the integration with GitHub and single sign-on (SSO) for authentication, service principals, and managed service identities.
Click here to know more
27. Manage application configuration data
This module explores ways to rethink application configuration data and the separation of concerns method. Explore Azure App Configuration, details Key-value pairs, App Configuration feature management, and integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines.
Click here to know more
28. Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
This module describes key concepts of infrastructure as code and environment deployment creation and configuration. Also, understand the imperative, declarative, and idempotent configuration and how it applies to your company.
Click here to know more
29. Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
This module explores Azure Resource Manager templates and their components and details dependencies and modularized templates with secrets.
Click here to know more
30. Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
This module explains Azure CLI to create Azure resources, run templates, and detail Azure CLI commands.
Click here to know more
31. Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
This module describes Azure Automation with Azure DevOps, using runbooks, webhooks, and PowerShell workflows. You learn how to create and manage automation for your environment.
Click here to know more
32. Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
This module describes Desired State Configuration (DSC) and its components for implementation. You can exercise how to import, compile and automate your environment creation, and use DSC for Linux automation on Azure.
Click here to know more
33. Implement Bicep
This module explains Bicep and how it integrates with different tools such as Azure CLI and Visual Studio Code for environment deployment configuration.
Click here to know more
34. Introduction to Secure DevOps
This module introduces DevSecOps concepts, SQL injection attacks, threat modeling, and security for continuous integration.
Click here to know more
35. Implement open-source software
This module explores open-source software and corporate concerns with software components. Also, it explains common open-source licenses, license implications, and ratings.
Click here to know more
36. Software Composition Analysis
This module explains Composition Analysis, how to inspect and validate code bases for compliance, integration with security tools, and integration with Azure Pipelines.
Click here to know more
37. Security Monitoring and Governance
This module describes security monitoring and governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its usage scenarios, Azure Policies, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and security practices related to the tools.
Click here to know more
38. Explore package dependencies
This module explores dependency management concepts and helps to identify project dependencies. You learn how to decompose your system, identify dependencies, and package componentization.
Click here to know more
39. Understand package management
This module describes package feeds, common public package sources, and how to create and publish packages.
Click here to know more
40. Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts
This module details package migration, consolidation, and configuration to secure access to package feeds and artifact repositories.
Click here to know more
41. Implement a versioning strategy
This module explains versioning strategies for packaging, best practices for versioning, and package promotion.
Click here to know more
42. Introduction to GitHub Packages
This module introduces you to GitHub Packages. It explores ways to control permissions and visibility, publish, install, delete and restore packages using GitHub.
Click here to know more
43. Implement tools to track usage and flow
This module introduces you to continuous feedback practices and tools to track usage and flow, such as Azure Logs Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Application Insights.
Click here to know more
44. Develop monitor and status dashboards
This module explains steps to develop monitoring with Azure Dashboards, work with View Designer and Azure Monitor, and create Azure Monitor Workbooks. Also, explore tools to supports monitoring with Power BI.
Click here to know more
45. Share knowledge within teams
This module describes how to share knowledge within teams, Azure DevOps Wikis, and integration with Azure Boards.
Click here to know more
46. Design processes to automate application analytics
This module helps designing process to Application Insights, explores telemetry and monitoring tools and technologies.
Click here to know more
47. Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
This module examines alerts, blameless retrospectives and creates a just culture. It helps improving application performance, reducing meaningless and nonactionable alerts, and explains server response-time degradation.
Click here to know more