AZ-400: Development for enterprise DevOps

• • Introduction to DevOps
• • Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
• • Design and implement branch strategies and workflows
• • Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
• • Explore Git hooks
• • Plan foster inner source
• • Manage and configure repositories
• • Identify technical debt

AZ-400: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

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

AZ-400: Design and implement a release strategy

• • Create a release pipeline
• • Explore release strategy recommendations
• • Configure and Provision Environments
• • Manage and modularize tasks and templates
• • Automate inspection of health

AZ-400: 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

AZ-400: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

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

AZ-400: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance

• • Introduction to Secure DevOps
• • Implement open-source software
• • Software Composition Analysis
• • Security Monitoring and Governance

AZ-400: Design and implement a dependency management strategy

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

AZ-400: 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