Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) Cert Prep: 5 Design and Implement Continuous Delivery
3h 57mAdvanced2023-03-21
Authors
Microsoft Press
Microsoft
Paul Furlan
DevOps engineer focused on version control systems and CI/CD pipelines
Course details
Get ready to take your skills to the next level and tackle the fifth domain of the Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) certification exam: Design and Implement Continuous Delivery. Join the experts from Microsoft Press for an overview of how to design, implement, configure, and maintain continuous delivery. Learn how to set up a release pipeline, utilize infrastructure as code, and deploy ARM templates. Go over configuration management, custom script extensions, and Azure app configuration. Find out how to set up release targets, test your applications, and design and implement your release strategy. Plus, learn how to use site reliability engineering, elasticity and load, health checks, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to tackle the fifth domain of the official exam.
Skills covered
GitHubDevOps ToolsDevOps FoundationsDevOpsAzureCloud ServicesCert PrepCloud ComputingMicrosoft
Concepts
Lesson 6 - Design Continuous Delivery
- Learning objectives
- Learn about the application deployment process
- Lab A - Set up a release pipeline
- Lab B - Set dependencies, approvals, and gates
- Understand infrastructure as code
- Lab C - Deploy ARM templates
- Learn about configuration management
- Lab D - Use custom script extension
- Lab E - Configure desired state configuration
- Lab F - Set up automation state configuration
- Learn about Azure app configuration
- Lab G - Learn about Azure app configuration
Lesson 7 - Implement Continuous Delivery
- Learning objectives
- Set up release targets
- Lab A - Learn about deployment groups
- Lab B - Configure a VM scale set
- Lab C - Learn about Azure app service
- Lab D - Set up Kubernetes
- Test your application
- Lab E - Learn about manual and exploratory testing
- Lab F - Set up automated testing
- Lab G - Learn about test reports
- Design and implement a release strategy
- Lab H - Set up rolling deployment
- Lab I - Configure canary deployment
- Lab J - Learn about blue-green deployment
Lesson 8 - Develop a Site Reliability Engineering Strategy
- Learning objectives
- Understand site reliability engineering
- Lab A - Azure Service Health
- Learn about elasticity and load balancing
- Lab B - Load balancer and scale sets
- Learn about health checks
- Lab C - Load balancer health probe
- Lab D - Container liveness and readiness probes
- Lab E - Application health extension