Azure DevOps Syllabus

• Azure DevOps Syllabus

• DevOps Introduction
• Traditional Software Development Life Cycle
• Waterfall Model
• About Agile Methodology.
• What is DevOps?
• DevOps Practices?
• The Challenge
• Benefits of DevOps over Traditional IT
• DevOps Tools
• What is CI and CD
• DevOps as a profession – DevOps Engineer

• Azure DevOps
• What is Azure DevOps
• Version History
• Azure DevOps Features
• Azure DevOps Tools and Project Life Cycle
• Create DevOps Account
• Create Organization
• Create Project and Get Started
• Create Users and invite teams members

• Azure Boards
• Introduction
• Working with Work Items
• Epic, Feature, User Story, Task, Bug and Test Cases
• Linking Items
• Collaborate with Team members
• Follow a Work Item
• Dashboards
• Capacity Planning with Sprints
• List work items using Queries

Azure Repos, GitHub and GIT

• Version control using Git

• What is Git, Azure Repos and GitHub
• Install Git Locally
• Getting Started with Git Commands
• Updating to DevOps Repository
• Working with Branches
• Merging Branches
• Creating and Committing a Pull Request
• Add a rule to Require a Review
• Squash Merging during Pull Request.
• Working with Merge Conflicts
• Cherry-Picking and Rebase
• Undo Changes using Reset and Revert
• Ignoring files using gitignore
• Managing Git Branches in Azure Repos
• Branch Policies and Branch Permissions
• Branches in Folders
• Working the GitHub Repositories
• Branching Workflow Types
• Feature Branching
• Gitflow Branching
• Forking Workflow
• Summary of Git Commands

• Azure Repos TFVC

• About TFVC
• Using TFVC in VS.NET
• Moving from TFVC to Git

• Continuous Integration using Azure Build Pipelines

• About Azure DevOps Pipeline
• Understanding the Build Process
• Create a Pipeline using Classic Editor
• Enable Continuous Triggers for Build Pipeline
• Add a status badge to Repository
• Working with Task Groups
• Validate Pull Request based on Build Pipeline result
• Add a Widget to Dashboard

• Continuous Integration using YAML Pipelines

• Understanding YAML file format
• Building Azure DevOps Pipeline using YAML
• Publishing results to Artifacts
• Triggering Continuous Integration in YAML
• Filtering Tasks based on branch being built
• Using Templates to Build Multiple Configurations
• Build on Multi-Platform pipeline

• Integrating Quality Tests in Azure Pipeline

• Overview of Testing
• Add Unit Tests to your Application
• Integrating Unit Test with CI Pipeline
• Add the Test Widget to Dashboard
• Perform Code Coverage Testing using Cobertura

• Scan Code for Vulnerabilities and License Ratings in CI Pipeline

• Sources and Impacts of Technical Dept
• Managing Technical Dept with DevOps and Sonar Cloud
• Scan open-source components using WhiteSource Bolt

• Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines

• What is Continuous Delivery
• Connecting to Azure Subscription
• Deploying App to App Service using Designer
• Multi-State Pipeline
• Approvals and Gates
• Working with Task Groups
• Deploying App to Virtual Machine
• Deploying App to App Service using YAML
• Add the deployment State to the pipeline
• Deploy Apps to Specific Environment
• Deploy Azure Functions

• Deep Dive into CI ad CD Pipeline

• Introduction
• Retention Policies
• About Build Agents
• About Agent Pools
• Create Self Hosted Windows Agent
• About Libraries
• Variables
• Secure Files
• Pipeline Conditions
• Pipeline Demands
• Integrating Pipeline with Microsoft Teams
• UI Test using Selenium
• Overview about Functional Tests
• Kind of Functional Tests
• UI Test with Selenium on Local System
• UI Tests in Build and Release Pipeline
• Capture Video

• Azure Key Vault

• Introduction to Key Vault
• Secrets vs Keys
• How it Works
• Creating a Key Vault Service and Add Keys and Secrets
• System Assigned and User Assigned Managed Identity
• Reference Key Vault in ARM Template
• Reference Secrets with Dynamic ID
• Working with SQL Database
• Creating a Database Project
• Database Deployment using DACPAC
• Deploying Database using SQL Scripts in Pipeline
• Using Multiple Stages and Approvals

• IaC using ARM Templates

• About Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• About ARM Templates
• Sample to Create Storage Account using ARM Template
• Deploy Templates using PowerShell
• Deploy Templates using Azure Portal
• Deploy Templates using Azure Pipeline
• Incremental and Complete Deployment
• Creating VM using ARM Template
• Create linked ARM Templates
• Creating Resource Group and Resources at Subscription Level
• IaC using Terraform Templates
• Overview of Terraform
• Terraform Files Structure
• Terraform Commands
• Run a Terraform plan from Azure Cloud Shell
• Provision Terraform Tasks in Azure Pipeline – Classic Editor
• Provision Terraform Task in Azure Pipeline – YAML File

• IaC using Ansible

• Overview of Ansible
• Ansible Workflow
• Ansible Components
• Installing Ansible
• Playbook Structure
• Executing a Playbook

• Azure Artifacts
• What are Artifacts
• Public and download Build Artifacts
• Publish and download Pipeline Artifacts
• Working with Feed and NuGet Packages
• Share Packages Publicly
• Public NuGet Package from Pipeline to NuGet Feeds
• Upstream Sources and View

• Continuous Integration using Jenkins

• Jenkins Management
• Adding a slave node to Jenkins
• Building Delivery Pipeline
• Pipeline as a Code

• Working with Containerization using Docker

• Understanding VM and Containers
• What is Docker and its Benefits
• Docker Architecture
• Steps to Create Docker Image
• Build and Publish Docker Image to Docker Hub using Azure Pipeline
• Build and Publish Docker Image to Azure Container Registry using Azure Pipeline
• Deploying to Web App
• Deploying a Docker Container in VM or Local Machine using Docker Compose

• Working with Kubernetes

• Deploying Applications to Kubernetes Cluster
• What is Kubernetes
• Kubnetes Server and Client Components
• Creating an AKS Cluster
• Writing Deployment and Service YAML files
• Deploying the Application using Kubectl
• Building a CI and CD Pipeline for Deploying to Kubernetes Cluster.