DevOps Practices and Principles

About this course

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program in DevOps.

This course provides the fundamental concepts to prepare you for deeper dives into specific DevOps practices.

We will cover deploying and configuring standardized infrastructure, automating builds and deployments using continuous integration and continuous deployment with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and automating testing before release and whilst in production.

The course will also cover continuous learning from production, and how to improve and scale business results based on application monitoring.

After completing this course, you should be able to understand how to begin crafting a release pipeline that includes continuous integration techniques, continuous testing practices, monitoring, treating infrastructure and configuration as code, and deploying frequently and automatically.

It is intended for both Development and Operations professionals, who are interested in learning and adopting DevOps practices.

What you'll learn

DevOps core values, principles and practices

How to deploy to IaaS and PaaS environments in Microsoft Azure using ARM templates, Desired State Configuration (DSC) and other deployment tools

Build and deploy applications automatically to Dev, Test and Production environments

Continuous learning from production to improve and scale business results.

Unit tests, Integration tests, load tests, UI tests and test driven-development

Data retention strategies, exposure control strategies, and hypothesis-driven development.

Course Syllabus

This course contains the following content

Module 0: Course Overview:

Welcome
Course Overview
Pre-Course Survey

Module 1: DevOps Fundamentals

Overview
Why DevOps
Sustainable DevOps
Compliance and security in DevOps
Change Agents and the DevOps Journey
Supplemental learning
Review Questions

Module 2: Deploy and Configure Standardized Environments

Overview
Environments in IaaS/PaaS and with Containers
ARM Templates and Desired State Configuration
Supplemental learning
Review Questions

Module 3: Build and Deploy Automatically to Production Often and Consistently

Overview
Automated Builds
Automated Deployments
Package Management and Containers
Lab: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Supplemental learning
Review Questions

Module 4: Test Automatically Before and In Production

Overview
DevOps Testing Concepts
Continuous Testing
Lab: Testing in Production
Supplemental learning
Review Questions

Module 5:Continuous Learning from Production to Improve and Scale Business results

Overview
Application Performance Monitoring
Exposure Strategies
Hypothesis-Driven Development
Lab: Application Performance Monitoring
Supplemental learning
Review Questions

Final Exam

Introduction to DevOps Practices: Final Exam
Post-Course Survey

Meet the instructors

Eamonn Kelly

Content Developer
Microsoft

Eamonn is a Content Developer for Microsoft with 15+ years as an IT Professional both within and outside of Microsoft. Eamonn has worked in areas such as product development, localization and content development primarily on client and server systems.

Samantha Lindsey-Ahmed

Senior Content Developer
Microsoft

Samantha is a Senior Content Developer for Microsoft, with experience in developer documentation (protocols) and certification exams.

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