Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) Curriculum
Design and implement processes and communications
Design and implement traceability and flow of work
- Design and implement a structure for the flow of work, including GitHub Flow
- Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles, including notifications and GitHub issues
- Design and implement integration for tracking work, including GitHub projects, Azure Boards, and repositories
- Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability
- Design and implement a dashboard, including flow of work, such as cycle times, time to recovery, and lead time
- Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for project planning
- Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for development
- Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for testing
- Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for security
- Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for delivery
- Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for operations
- Document a project by configuring wikis and process diagrams, including Markdown and Mermaid syntax
- Configure release documentation, including release notes and API documentation
- Automate creation of documentation from Git history
- Configure integration by using webhooks
- Configure integration between Azure Boards and GitHub repositories
- Configure integration between GitHub or Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
- Design a branch strategy, including trunk-based, feature branch, and release branch
- Design and implement a pull request workflow by using branch policies and branch protections
- Implement branch merging restrictions by using branch policies and branch protections
- Design and implement a strategy for managing large files, including Git Large File Storage (LFS) and git-fat
- Design a strategy for scaling and optimizing a Git repository, including Scalar and cross-repository sharing
- Configure permissions in the source control repository
- Configure tags to organize the source control repository
- Recover specific data by using Git commands
- Remove specific data from source control
- Recommend package management tools including GitHub Packages registry and Azure Artifacts
- Design and implement package feeds and views for local and upstream packages
- Design and implement a dependency versioning strategy for code assets and packages, including semantic versioning (SemVer) and date-based (CalVer)
- Design and implement a versioning strategy for pipeline artifacts
- Design and implement quality and release gates, including security and governance
- Design a comprehensive testing strategy, including local tests, unit tests, integration tests, and load tests
- Implement tests in a pipeline, including configuring test tasks, configuring test agents, and integration of test results
- Implement code coverage analysis
- Select a deployment automation solution, including GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
- Design and implement a GitHub runner or Azure DevOps agent infrastructure, including cost, tool selection, licenses, connectivity, and maintainability
- Design and implement integration between GitHub repositories and Azure Pipelines
- Develop and implement pipeline trigger rules
- Develop pipelines by using YAML
- Design and implement a strategy for job execution order, including parallelism and multi-stage pipelines
- Develop and implement complex pipeline scenarios, such as hybrid pipelines, VM templates, and self hosted runners or agents
- Create reusable pipeline elements, including YAML templates, task groups, variables, and variable groups
- Design and implement checks and approvals by using YAML-based environments
- Design a deployment strategy, including blue-green, canary, ring, progressive exposure, feature flags, and A/B testing
- Design a pipeline to ensure that dependency deployments are reliably ordered
- Plan for minimizing downtime during deployments by using virtual IP address (VIP) swap, load balancing, rolling deployments, and deployment slot usage and swap
- Design a hotfix path plan for responding to high-priority code fixes
- Design and implement a resiliency strategy for deployment
- Implement feature flags by using Azure App Configuration Feature Manager
- Implement application deployment by using containers, binaries, and scripts
- Implement a deployment that includes database tasks
- Recommend a configuration management technology for application infrastructure
- Implement a configuration management strategy for application infrastructure
- Define an IaC strategy, including source control and automation of testing and deployment
- Design and implement desired state configuration for environments, including Azure Automation State Configuration, Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, and Azure Automanage Machine Configuration
- Design and implement Azure Deployment Environments for on-demand self-deployment
- Monitor pipeline health, including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
- Optimize a pipeline for cost, time, performance, and reliability
- Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance and cost
- Design and implement a retention strategy for pipeline artifacts and dependencies
- Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines
- Choose between Service Principals and Managed Identity (including system-assigned and user-assigned)
- Implement and manage GitHub authentication, including GitHub Apps, GITHUB_TOKEN, and personal access tokens
- Implement and manage Azure DevOps service connections and personal access tokens
- Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
- Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
- Recommend appropriate access levels, including stakeholder access in Azure DevOps and outside collaborator access in GitHub
- Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps
- Implement and manage secrets, keys, and certificates by using Azure Key Vault
- Implement and manage secrets in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
- Design and implement a strategy for managing sensitive files during deployment, including Azure Pipelines secure files
- Design pipelines to prevent leakage of sensitive information
- Design a strategy for security and compliance scanning, including dependency, code, secret, and licensing scanning
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud DevOps Security
- Configure GitHub Advanced Security for both GitHub and Azure DevOps
- Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Automate container scanning, including scanning container images and configuring an action to run CodeQL analysis in a container
- Automate analysis of licensing, vulnerabilities, and versioning of open-source components by using Dependabot alerts
- Configure Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to integrate with DevOps tools
- Configure collection of telemetry by using Application Insights, VM Insights, Container Insights, Storage Insights, and Network Insights
- Configure monitoring in GitHub, including enabling insights and creating and configuring charts
- Configure alerts for events in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
- Inspect infrastructure performance indicators, including CPU, memory, disk, and network
- Analyze metrics by using collected telemetry, including usage and application performance
- Inspect distributed tracing by using Application Insights
- Interrogate logs using basic Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries