AZ - 400 : Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator with subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations. Your responsibilities include delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and feedback. You design and implement flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, and automation. As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include developers, site reliability engineers, Azure administrators, and security engineers. The AZ-400 exam validates your expertise in designing and implementing DevOps solutions on Microsoft Azure. It's designed for IT professionals with experience in development, operations, or both, who want to demonstrate their ability to bridge the gap between these traditionally siloed teams. Design and implement DevOps processes. Implement source control with Azure Repos. Design and implement build and release pipelines. Develop a security and compliance plan.

Audience Profile:

Candidates should be proficient with Agile practices and have expertise in either Azure administration or Azure development. They should be skilled in designing and implementing DevOps practices using Azure technologies, including version control, compliance, infrastructure as code, configuration management, build, release, and testing.

Skills Gained:

• Understanding general cloud computing concepts

• Familiarity with core services available with Microsoft Azure

• Knowledge of security, privacy, compliance, and trust within Microsoft Azure

• Insight into pricing and support models available with Microsoft Azure

Course Outline:

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Azure
Lessons:

• Introduction to cloud computing

• What is Microsoft Azure?

• Microsoft Azure Services

• Creating a Microsoft Azure Account

• Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell

• Managing Azure Resources & Subscriptions

• Azure Resource Manager

• Microsoft Azure Architecture

Module 2: Introduction to ARM & Azure Storage
Lessons:

• Azure Resources & Subscriptions

• Azure Resource Manager

• Managing Azure Resources

• Azure Tags

• Azure Storage Account & its types

• Azure Blob Storage

• Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)

• Azure Files Storage

• Azure File Sync

Module 3: Introduction to Azure Storage
Lessons:

• Azure Table Storage

• Azure Queue Storage

• Azure Storage Explorer

• Azure Shared Access Signature (SAS)

• Azure Databox

• Azure Storage Replication

• Data Replication Options

• Azure Import/Export Service

Module 4: Azure Virtual Machines
Lessons:

• Azure Virtual Machines

• Data Disks in Azure

• Azure VMs & Interfaces

• ARM templates

• VHD templates

• Custom Images of Azure VM

• Virtual Machine Scale Sets

• Virtual Machine Availability Sets

Module 5: Azure App and Container Services
Lessons:

• App Service Web App for Containers

• App Service plan

• Networking for an App Service

• Deployment slots

• Container image

• Azure Kubernetes Service

• Azure Container Registry

Module 6: Azure Networking I
Lessons:

• Azure Virtual Networks

• Azure Vnet Components

• IP Address Public & Private IPs

• Azure Vnet Subnets

• Azure Network Interface Cards (NIC)

• Network Security Group (NSG)

• Route Tables

• Service Tags

• Azure DNS

• Private DNS

Module 7: Azure Networking II
Lessons:

• Application Gateway

• Azure Front Door Service

• Azure Traffic Manager

• Application Security Groups

• Azure Load Balancers

• Azure Firewall

• Azure Bastion

• Network Watcher

• Azure Express Route

• Express Route Circuits

• Express Route Peering

Module 8: Authentication and Authorization in Azure using RBAC
Lessons:

• Identity and Access Management in Azure

• Role Based Access Management (RBAC)

• Role Definitions

• Role Assignment in Azure Resources

• Azure Users & Groups

• RBAC Policies

Module 9: Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Lessons:

• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

• Windows AD Vs Azure AD

• Azure AD Users

• Azure AD Groups

• Azure AD Domains

• Azure AD Tenants

• Authentication Options

• Azure AD Connect

• Self Service password Reset (SSPR)

• Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

• Resource Locks

Module 10: Azure Monitoring
Lessons:

• Azure Monitor

• Azure Metrics

• Log Analytics

• Alerts and actions

• Application Insights

• Backup reports

• Recovery Services Vault

• Backing Up Azure Virtual Machines

• VM Backup Policies

• Restoring Azure Virtual machines

Module 11: Infrastructure Setup
Lessons:

• EC2 Walkthrough

• Installation of DevOps Tools on cloud

Module 12: Introduction to DevOps
Lessons:

• What is Software Development

• Software Development Life Cycle

• Traditional Models for SDLC

• Why DevOps?

• What is DevOps?

• DevOps Lifecycle

• DevOps Tools

Module 13: Continuous Testing
Lessons:

• What is Continuous Testing?

• What is Maven?

• Running Test Cases on Chromium Web Driver

• What is Headless Mode?

Module 14: Continuous Integration using Jenkins
Lessons:

• Introduction to Continuous Integration

• Jenkins Master Slave Architecture

• Understanding CI/CD Pipelines

• Creating an end to end automated CI/CD Pipeline

Module 15: Software Version Control
Lessons:

• What is Version Control?

• Types of Version Control System

• Introduction to SVN

• Introduction to Git

• Git Lifecycle

• Common Git Commands

• Working with Branches in Git

• Merging Branches

• Resolving Merge Conflicts

• Git Workflow

Module 16: Continuous Deployment: Containerization with Docker
Lessons:

• Introduction to Docker

• Understanding Docker Lifecycle

• Components of Docker Ecosystem

• Common Docker Operations

• Creating a DockerHub Account

• Committing changes in a Container

• Pushing a Container Image to DockerHub

• Creating Custom Docker Images using Dockerfile

Module 17: Containerization with Docker: Ecosystem and Networking
Lessons:

• What are Docker Volumes

• Deploying a Multi Tier Application using Docker Network

• Using Docker Compose to deploy containers

• What is Container Orchestration

• Container Orchestration Tools

• Introduction to Docker Swarm

• Deploying a 2-Node Cluster using Docker Swarm

Module 18: Configuration Management using Puppet
Lessons:

• Need of Configuration Management

• Configuration Management Tools

• What is Puppet

• Puppet Architecture

• Setting up Master Slave using Puppet

• Puppet Manifests

• Puppet Modules

• Applying configuration using Puppet

• Puppet File Server

Module 19: Configuration Management using Ansible
Lessons:

• What is Ansible?

• Ansible vs Puppet

• Ansible Architecture

• Setting up Master Slave using Ansible

• Ansible Playbook

• Ansible Roles

• Applying configuration using Ansible

Module 20: Continuous Orchestration using Kubernetes
Lessons:

• Introduction to Kubernetes

• Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Architecture

• Deploying Kubernetes using Kubeadms

• Alternate ways of deploying Kubernetes

• YAML Files

• Creating a Deployment in Kubernetes using YAML

• Services in Kubernetes

• Ingress in Kubernetes

• Case Study – Kubernetes Architecture

Module 21: Continuous Monitoring using Nagios
Lessons:

• What is Continuous Monitoring?

• Introduction to Nagios

• Nagios Architecture

• Monitoring Services in Nagios

• What are NRPE Plugins?

• Monitoring System Info using NRPE plugins

Module 22: Terraform Modules & Workspaces
Lessons:

• What is Infrastructure as a code

• IaC vs Configuration Management

• Introduction to Terraform

• Installing Terraform on AWS

• Basic Operations in Terraform

• Terraform Code Basics

• Deploying an end-to-end architecture on AWS using Terraform

Module 23: Azure DevOps and Azure Repos
Lessons:

• Azure devops architecture

• Key features

• Azure devops tools

• Azure devops organizations and projects

• Introduction to Azure Repos

• Compare TFVC and Git

• Key concepts in azure repos

• Search your code in Repos

• What is TFVC

• Azure Repos Integrations

Module 24: Azure Artifacts and Azure Test Plans
Lessons:

• What are Azure artifacts

• Key concepts in artifacts

• Working with packages

• Feeds

• Views and upstream sources

• Connecting to azure pipelines

• What are Azure test plans

• Exploratory and manual testing

• Test from kanban board

• Creating Test Plans

• Testing web apps

Module 25: Azure Pipelines
Lessons:

• What is Azure Pipelines

• Why use Azure Pipelines

• Deploying to Azure

• Key concepts in Pipelines

• CI Triggers in pipelines

• YAML Basics

• Ecosystems and Integration

• Setting up CI build

• Adding Tests to the Pipeline

• Agents and Tasks

Module 26: Azure Boards
Lessons:

• What is Azure Boards

• Why use azure boards

• Agile project management best practices

• Basic concepts of Azure Boards

• Connecting boards to github

• Work items

• Kanban boards

• Sprints

• Scrum and plans

• Azure Boards integrations

Module 27: Terraform with Azure
Lessons:

• What is Infrastructure as a code?

• IaC vs Configuration Management

• Introduction to Terraform

• Installing Terraform on AWS

• Basic Operations in Terraform

• Terraform Code Basics

• Deploying an end-to-end architecture on Azure using Terraform