Azure DevOps ISI-1504C

Module 1DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project

• Management
• Azure DevOps Overview
• Introducing DevOps
• Understanding DevOps principles
• o Principle 1 – Customer-centric action
• o Principle 2 – Create with the end in mind
• o Principle 3 – End-to-end responsibility
• o Principle 4 – Cross-functional autonomous teams
• o Principle 5 – Continuous improvement
• o Principle 6 – Automate everything
• Introducing Azure DevOps key concepts
• o Plan
• o Develop
• o Deliver
• o Operate
• o Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• o Agile development support
• o Version control
• o Infrastructure as Code
• o Configuration Management
• o Monitoring
• Discovering Azure DevOps services
• o Azure Boards
• o Azure Repos
• o Azure Pipelines
• o Azure Test Plans
• o Azure Artifacts
• o Extension Marketplace
• Introducing the scenarios
• o Creating the starter project
• Managing Projects with Azure DevOps Boards
• Technical requirements
• Understanding processes and process templates
• Creating an organization
• Creating a project
• Creating and managing project activities
• o Work Items
• o Backlogs
• o Boards
• o Sprints
• o Queries

Module 2Source Code and Builds

• Source Control Management with Azure DevOps
• Technical requirements
• Understanding SCM
• Exploring branching strategies
• o GitHub Flow
• o GitLab Flow
• o Git Flow
• Handling source control with Azure DevOps
• o Cloning a remote repository
• o Importing a GitHub repository into Azure DevOps
• o Working with commits, pushes, and branches
• o Protecting branches with policies
• o Cross-repo policies
• Working with pull requests
• Creating a pull request from the Azure DevOps pull request page
• o Creating a pull request from a work item
• o Creating a pull request after pushing a branch
• o Creating a pull request from Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio
• Handling a pull request
• Tagging a release
• Understanding Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Technical requirements
• Implementing a CI/CD process
• Overview of Azure Pipelines
• Understanding build agents
• o Microsoft-hosted agents
• o Self-hosted agents
• o When to use a Microsoft-hosted or a self-hosted agent
• Overview of the YAML language
• o Scalars
• o Collections and lists
• o Dictionaries
• o Document structure
• o Complex object definition
• Creating a build pipeline with Azure DevOps
• o Pipeline definition with the classic editor
• o YAML pipeline definition
• Retention of builds
• Multi-stage pipeline
• Building a pipeline with GitHub repositories
• o Executing jobs in parallel in an Azure Pipeline
• o Agents on Azure Container Instances
• Using container jobs in Azure Pipelines
• Running Quality Tests in a Build Pipeline
• Technical requirements
• Benefits of automatic testing
• Introduction to unit testing
• Running unit tests in a build pipeline
• o Downloading the source code
• o Creating the pipeline
• Introduction to code coverage testing
• Performing code coverage testing
• Assigning test results to work items
• Introduction to Feature Flags
• Using Feature Flags to test in production
• o Creating a new .NET Core application
• Hosting Your Own Azure Pipeline Agent
• Technical requirements
• Azure pipeline agent overview
• Understanding the types of agents in Azure Pipelines
• o Microsoft-hosted agents
• o Self-hosted agents
• Planning and setting up your self-hosted Azure pipeline agent
• o Choosing the right OS/image for the agent VM
• o OS support and pre-requisites for installing an Azure Pipelines agent
• o Creating a VM in Azure for your project
• o Setting up the build agent
• Updating your Azure pipeline to use self-hosted agents
• o Preparing your self-hosted agent to build the Parts Unlimited project
• o Running the Azure pipeline
• Using containers as self-hosted agents
• o Setting up Windows containers as Azure pipeline agents
• o Setting up Linux containers as Azure Pipelines agents
• o Using Azure Container Instances as agents
• o Environment variables
• o Planning for scale
• o Creating an Azure VM scale set
• o Setting up Azure pipeline agents with VM scale set

Module 3Artifacts and Deployments

• Using Artifacts with Azure DevOps
• Technical requirements
• Introducing Azure Artifacts
• Creating an artifact feed with Azure Artifacts
• Producing the package using a build pipeline
• o Adding the sample project to the PartsUnlimited repository
• o Creating the build pipeline
• Publishing the package to the feed from a build pipeline
• o Setting the required permissions on the feed
• Consuming the package in Visual Studio from the Artifacts feed
• Scanning for package vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt
• Deploying Applications with Azure DevOps
• Technical requirements
• An overview of release pipelines
• Creating a release pipeline with Azure DevOps
• o Creating the Azure DevOps release
• o Configuring the release pipeline triggers for continuous deployment
• Creating a multi-stage release pipeline
• Using approvals and gates for managing deployments
• o Creating approvals
• o Using gates to check conditions
• o Using deployment groups
• YAML release pipelines with Azure DevOps

Module 4Advanced Features of Azure DevOps

• Integrating Azure DevOps with GitHub
• Technical requirements
• An overview of Azure DevOps and GitHub integration
• Integrating Azure Pipelines with GitHub
• o Setting up Azure Pipelines and GitHub integration
• o Testing continuous integration
• o Adding a build Status badge
• Integrating Azure Boards with GitHub
• o Setting up Azure Boards and GitHub integration
• o Adding an Azure Boards Status badge
• o Linking Azure Boards work items to GitHub objects
• o Updating work items from GitHub
• Overview of GitHub Actions
• Using Test Plans with Azure DevOps
• Technical requirements
• Introduction to Azure Test Plans
• Exploratory testing
• o Installing and using the Test & Feedback extension
• Planned manual testing
• Test plans, test suites, and test cases
• o Managing test plans, test suites, and test cases
• Running and analyzing a manual test plan
• Real-World CI/CD Scenarios with Azure DevOps
• Technical requirements
• Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for .NET-based applications
• o Introduction to the sample application
• o Preparing the pre-requisite Azure infrastructure
• o Setting up an Azure DevOps project
• Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a container-based application
• o Introduction to the sample app
• o Setting up the required infrastructure
• o Setting up Azure Repos for the voting application
• o Setting up the CI pipeline
• o Setting up the CD pipeline
• o Simulating an end-to-end CI/CD experience
• Azure Architecture Center for DevOps