DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices (AZ-2008)

Course Objectives
• Discover DevOps
• Plan with DevOps
• Develop with DevOps
• Deliver with DevOps
• Operate with DevOps

Target Audience
• DevOps Engineer
• Security Engineer
• Azure Administrator
• Technical Architect

Prerequisites Recommended:
• An Azure Subscription. You need to bring your own subscription.
• Basic familiarity with IT terms and concepts. 

Course Outline

1) Discover DevOps
• Describe the DevOps approach
• Explore best practices for fostering DevOps culture
• Identify DevOps goals and benefits
• Understand the DevOps application lifecycle

2) Plan with DevOps
• Describe the components of and the path to a DevOps culture
• Define the frameworks and methods of the Agile methodology
• Implement DevOps practices
• Use GitHub to plan a project

3) Develop with DevOps
• Define source control and version control
• Describe how to manage source control with Git
• Describe how to manage source control with GitHub Flow
• Define the concept of continuous integration
• Explore DevOps shift-left testing scenarios
• Explore DevOps shift-left security scenarios

4) Deliver with DevOps
• Define the concept of continuous delivery
• Describe the concept and implementation methods of IaC
• Review the progressive exposure techniques and deployment practices
• Explore DevOps shift-right testing scenarios
• Describe how to implement continuous delivery with GitHub Actions

5) Operate with DevOps
• Explore the concepts of operational excellence
• Review infrastructure and application monitoring solutions
• Review infrastructure and application security monitoring solutions
• Describe the correlation between SRE and DevOps