1 – Introduction to DevOps

• What is DevOps?
• Explore the DevOps journey
• Identify transformation teams
• Define organization structure for agile practices
• Explore shared goals and define timelines
• What is Azure DevOps?
• What is GitHub?
• Design a license management strategy
• What is source control?
• Describe working with Git locally
• Module assessment

2 – Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps
• Link GitHub to Azure Boards
• Configure GitHub Projects
• Manage work with GitHub Project boards
• Customize Project views
• Collaborate using team discussions
• Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles
• Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability
• Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
• Module assessment

3 – Design and implement branch strategies and workflows

• Explore branch workflow types
• Explore feature branch workflow
• Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
• Explore GitHub flow
• Explore fork workflow
• Implement branch merging restrictions
• Version control with Git in Azure Repos
• Module assessment

4 – Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

• Collaborate with pull requests
• Module assessment

5 – Explore Git hooks

• Implement Git hooks
• Module assessment

6 – Plan to foster inner source

• Explore foster inner source
• Implement the fork workflow
• Describe inner source with forks
• Module assessment

7 – Manage and configure repositories

• Work with large repositories
• Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
• Implement a changelog
• Implement Scalar and cross-repository sharing
• Recover specific data by using Git commands
• Clean up repository data
• Manage releases with GitHub repos
• Automate release notes with GitHub
• Create API documentation
• Implement automation of Git history documentation
• Configure repository permissions using GitHub
• Configure GitHub tags to organize repositories

8 – Identify technical debt

• Examine code quality
• Examine complexity and quality metrics
• Measure and manage technical debt
• Integrate other code quality tools
• Plan effective code reviews

9 – Explore Azure Pipelines

• Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
• Module assessment

10 – Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

• Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
• Explore job types
• Explore predefined agent pool
• Understand typical situations for agent pools
• Communicate with Azure Pipelines
• Communicate to deploy to target servers
• Examine other considerations
• Describe security of agent pools
• Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles
• Module assessment

11 – Describe pipelines and concurrency

• Understand parallel jobs
• Estimate parallel jobs
• Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
• Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
• Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
• Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Module assessment

12 – Design and implement a pipeline strategy

• Configure agent demands
• Explore multi-configuration and multi-agent builds
• Integrate GitHub repositories with Azure Pipelines
• Design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy
• Implement code coverage and show in the pipeline
• Implement multi-job builds
• Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines

13 – Integrate with Azure Pipelines

• Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
• Understand the pipeline structure
• Detail templates
• Explore YAML resources
• Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
• Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines
• Module assessment

14 – Introduction to GitHub Actions

• What are actions?
• Explore actions flow
• Understand workflows
• Describe standard workflow syntax elements
• Explore events
• Explore jobs
• Explore runners
• Examine release and test an action
• Module assessment

15 – Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

• Describe continuous integration with Actions
• Examine environment variables
• Share artifacts between jobs
• Examine workflow badges
• Describe best practices for creating actions
• Mark releases with Git tags
• Create encrypted secrets
• Use secrets in a workflow
• Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Module assessment

16 – Design a container build strategy

• Examine structure of containers
• Work with Docker containers
• Understand Dockerfile core concepts
• Examine multi-stage Dockerfiles
• Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
• Explore Azure container-related services
• Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
• Module assessment

17 – Create a Release Pipeline

• Describe Azure Pipelines capabilities
• Explore release pipelines
• Explore artifact sources
• Choose the appropriate artifact source
• Examine considerations for deployment to stages
• Explore build and release tasks
• Explore custom build and release tasks
• Explore release jobs
• Understand database deployment task
• Configure pipelines as code with YAML
• Module assessment

18 – Explore release strategy recommendations

• Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
• Explore release approvals
• Explore release gates
• Use release gates to protect quality
• Explore GitOps release strategy and recommendations
• Control deployments using release gates
• Module assessment

19 – Configure and Provision Environments

• Provision and configure target environments
• Configure automated integration and functional test automation
• Understand Shift-left
• Set up and run availability tests
• Explore Azure Load Testing
• Set up and run functional tests
• Module assessment

20 – Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates

• Examine task groups
• Explore Variables in release pipelines
• Module assessment

21 – Automate inspection of health

• Automate inspection of health
• Explore events and notifications
• Explore service hooks
• Configure Azure DevOps notifications
• Configure GitHub notifications
• Explore how to measure quality of your release process
• Examine release notes and documentation
• Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
• Explore common release management tools
• Module assessment

22 – Introduction to deployment patterns

• Explore microservices architecture
• Examine classical deployment patterns
• Understand modern deployment patterns
• Module assessment

23 – Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

• What is blue-green deployment?
• Explore deployment slots
• Describe feature toggle maintenance
• Module assessment

24 – Implement canary releases and dark launching

• Explore canary releases
• Examine traffic manager
• Understand dark launching
• Module assessment

25 – Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

• What is A/B testing?
• Explore CI/CD with deployment rings
• Module assessment

26 – Integrate with identity management systems

• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
• Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
• Explore workload identities
• Implement managed identities
• Module assessment

27 – Manage application configuration data

• Rethink application configuration data
• Explore separation of concerns
• Understand external configuration store patterns
• Implement Azure DevOps secure files
• Examine key-value pairs
• Examine App Configuration feature management
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
• Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Enable dynamic configuration and feature flags
• Module assessment

28 – Explore Infrastructure as Code and configuration management

• Explore environment deployment
• Examine environment configuration
• Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
• Understand idempotent configuration
• Module assessment

29 – Create Azure Resources by using Azure Resource Manager templates

• Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
• Explore template components
• Manage dependencies
• Modularize templates
• Manage secrets in templates
• Module assessment

30 – Create Azure Resources Using Azure CLI

• What Is Azure CLI?
• Install Azure CLI
• Execute Azure CLI Commands Interactively
• Create an Azure CLI Script for Bash
• Tips to Use the Azure CLI Successfully
• Module assessment

31 – Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

• Create automation accounts
• What is a runbook?
• Understand automation shared resources
• Explore runbook gallery
• Examine webhooks
• Explore source control integration
• Explore PowerShell workflows
• Create a workflow
• Explore hybrid management
• Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
• Module assessment

32 – Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Understand configuration drift
• Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Explore Azure Automation State Configuration (DSC)
• Examine DSC configuration file
• Implement DSC and Linux automation on Azure
• Module assessment

33 – Implement Bicep

• What is Bicep?
• Install Bicep
• Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
• Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
• Module assessment

34 – Introduction to Secure DevOps

• Describe SQL injection attack
• Understand DevSecOps
• Explore the secure DevOps pipeline
• Explore key validation points
• Explore continuous security validation
• Understand threat modeling
• Explore CodeQL in GitHub
• Module assessment

35 – Implement open-source software

• Explore how software is built
• What is open-source software?
• Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
• Explore common open-source licenses
• Examine license implications and ratings
• Module assessment

36 – Software Composition Analysis

• Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
• Explore software composition analysis
• Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
• Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
• Examine tools for assessing package security and license compliance
• Automate container image scanning
• Interpret alerts from scanner tools
• Module assessment

37 – Security monitoring and governance

• Implement pipeline security
• Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
• Explore Azure Policy
• Understand policies
• Explore initiatives
• Explore resource locks
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps
• Module assessment

38 – Explore package dependencies

• What is dependency management?
• Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
• Identify dependencies
• Understand source and package componentization
• Decompose your system
• Scan your codebase for dependencies
• Module assessment

39 – Understand package management

• Explore packages
• Understand package feeds
• Explore package feed managers
• Explore common public package sources
• Explore self-hosted and SaaS-based package sources
• Consume packages
• Publish packages
• Package management with Azure Artifacts
• Module assessment

40 – Migrate, consolidate, and secure artifacts

• Identify existing artifact repositories
• Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
• Secure access to package feeds
• Examine roles
• Examine permissions
• Examine authentication
• Module assessment

41 – Implement a versioning strategy

• Understand versioning of artifacts
• Explore semantic versioning
• Examine release views
• Promote packages
• Explore best practices for versioning
• Module assessment

42 – Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Publish packages
• Install a package
• Delete and restore a package
• Explore package access control and visibility
• Module assessment

43 – Implement Tools to Track Usage and Flow

• Understand the Inner Loop
• Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Explore Application Insights
• Implement Application Insights
• Design and Implement Metrics and Queries
• Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing
• Module assessment

44 – Develop monitor and status dashboards

• Configure monitoring in GitHub
• Explore Azure dashboards
• Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
• Explore Power BI
• Build your own custom monitoring application
• Monitor pipeline health including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
• Optimize pipelines for cost, time, performance, and reliability
• Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance
• Module assessment

45 – Share knowledge within teams

• Share acquired knowledge within development teams
• Integrate GitHub and Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams
• Share team knowledge using Azure project wiki
• Module assessment

46 – Design processes to automate application analytics

• Explore rapid responses and augmented search
• Integrate telemetry
• Examine monitoring tools and technologies
• Explore IT Service Management Connector
• Module assessment

47 – Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

• Examine when to get a notification
• Explore how to fix performance issues
• Configure smart detection notifications
• Improve application performance
• Understand server response time degradation
• Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
• Examine blameless retrospectives
• Develop a just culture
• Module assessment