Azure for DevOps: Implementing Development Processes

Learn how to implement DevOps processes such as source control, pipelines, and security with Microsoft Azure—and prepare for related objectives from the AZ-400 certification exam.

Introduction

• Why process matters in DevOps
• What you should know
• Azure DevOps exam overview

1. Getting Started with Source Control

• Getting started with source control
• What is source control?
• Benefits of source control
• Types of source control systems
• Introduction to Azure Repos
• Migrating from TFVC to Git
• Authenticating to your Git repo

2. Scaling Git for Enterprise DevOps

• How to structure your Git repo
• Git branching workflows
• Collaborating with pull requests
• Why care about Git hooks?
• Fostering internal open source
• GitVersion
• Public projects
• Files in Git

3. Implement and Manage Agents and Pools

• The concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Hosted vs. private agents
• Agent pools
• Azure Pipelines and concurrency
• Azure DevOps and open-source projects
• Azure Pipelines YAML vs. Ul designer
• Set up private agents
• Integrate external source control with Azure Pipelines
• Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines

4. Managing Application Config and Secrets

• Introduction to security
• Implement secure and compliant development processes
• Rethinking application config data
• Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance

5. Implement a Mobile DevOps Strategy

• Introduction to Mobile DevOps
• Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
• Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups
• Manage target UI test device sets
• Provision tester devices for deployment
• Create public and private distribution groups

Conclusion

• Next steps