Azure DevOps Solutions Engineer

In this module, you’ll learn about the tools Azure Administrators use to manage their infrastructure.

Azure Portal and Cloud Shell

• Using Cloud Shell to run AZ CLI commands.
• How Az CLI works.

Azure PowerShell and CLI

• AZ PowerShell.
• Difference between AZ And AzureRM.
• Learn PowerShell basics.

– Syntax and Data Types.

– Regex

– Modules.

• Start Writing Azure PowerShell scripts.

– Functions, advanced and basic.

– Scripts, advanced and basic.

Resource Manager

• What is ARM.
• How it works

ARM Templates

• ARM template syntax.
• ARM template functions.
• Variables.
• Looping.

Virtual Machine Planning

• How to plan the architecture?

Creating Virtual Machines

• Create VM using Portal.
• Create VM using PowerShell
• Create VM using AZ CLI.
• Create VM using ARM.

Virtual Machine Availability

• Learning about AS.
• How to plan AS.

Virtual Machine Extensions

• DSC and Custom Extensions.
• Difference between them.

Storage Accounts

• Pricing Tier.
• Storage types.
• Manage Storage Accounts.
• SAS Token.
• Create one using PS,ARM and CLI.

Azure Blobs

• Creating One.
• Uploading files in blocks.
• Understanding blocks.
• Page blob.
• Using Blob with PS,ARM and CLI.

Azure Files

• Creating FS using PS, ARM and AZ CLI.
• Managing FS.

Storage Security

VNet Peering

• What is it?
• How it works?
• Lab demo.

VNet-to-VNet Connections

• What is it?
• How It Works?
• demo

ExpressRoute Connections

• What is it?
• How it works?
• Lab Demo

Azure Monitor

• What is Azure Monitor?
• How to setup Azure Monitor?

Azure Alerts

• How Azure Alerts works.
• How they can trigger runbooks.
• Automation scopes.

Log Analytics.

• What is Logana?
• How to setup Logana?
• Lab Demo.

Network Watcher

• What is it?
• Why we need it?
• How to Set it up?
• Lab demo

Replicating your data.

Backing up your Data.

Backing Up entire VM.

Backing up Databases.

Site Recovery Designing.

Network Routing (Lab Demo Included.)

Azure Load Balancer(With Lab Demo)

Azure Traffic Manager(With Lab Demo)

Azure AD

• How Azure AD works?
• Users, groups, roles, policies and Application Registrations

Azure AD Connect.

Azure AD Join

Setup Multifactor Authentication.

Self Password reset.

Azure AD identity protection.

Managing Subscriptions.

RBAC.

Azure Policy.

WebApps.

SQL Databases.

Azure Key-Vault.

Monitoring PaaS.

• SQL DB monitoring.
• Application Insights.
• Alert based scaling of resources for better performance.

Introducing Docker.

Why Docker?

Configuring Docker.

Running your first container.

Docker Hub.

Pulling Images.

Working with Custom Images by learning how to write a Docker File.

YAML tutiorial.

Docker Storage.

Docker Networking.

Linking two containers.

Microservices.

Deploying multi container application with Docker Compose.

Docker Swarm.

Configuring Docker Swarm.

Deploying Application in Swarm Cluster.

Introducing Kubernetes.

Why K8?

Configuring K8 cluster.

Understanding components of K8.

Deploy your first pod.

RC and Deployments in K8.

Kubernetes Networking.

Kubernetes Storage.

Understanding YAML.

Write your first Deployment file.

Deploy an application in K8 cluster.

Using Services to Expose the Application to Outer World.

Ingress Controller.

Deploying multiple applications in one K8 cluster.

Project.

Ansible Architecture.

Demo of Setting up ansible for Linux and Windows hosts.

Setting up Ansible for Azure.

Ansible Inventories.

• Dynamic and static.

Ansible Playbook.

• YAML syntax.
• Variables.
• Modules.
• List
• Dictionaries.
• Loop.
• Conditional.

Ansible roles.

Automating Azure Resource deployment using Ansible.

Understanding Azure Agents.

• Self Hosted.
• Azure Hosted.
• Deployment Groups.
• Deployment pools.

Understanding CI/CD.

• What is Build?
• What is Release?

Understanding Build Pipelines.

• What is the Build Pipeline?
• Artifact.
• Creating one Build Pipeline.
• ARM Build.
• .Net Build.
• Understanding different stages of Build.

Understanding Continuous Integration.

• What and Why?
• Enabling CI.

Code Quality and Security Check-in Build.

• Understanding Technical Debt.
• Understanding Licensing Issues.
• Solving both using Sonar Cloud and White Source.

Understanding Release and Deployment.

• Difference between them.
• Creating a Release Pipeline.
• Embracing Continuous Delivery in Pipeline.

Understanding Release Gates.

• How release gates work.
• Pre and Post Deployment gates.

Playing with containerization in Pipeline.

• Understanding ACR.
• Understanding AKS.
• Creating a Complete Pipeline to containerize an application.

Time to Play with Integration of Jenkins.

• Build in Jenkins and Release in ADO.

Integration of Ansible with ADO.

• CICD of Ansible with ADO.

Understanding Dependencies.

• What are Dependencies?
• How to package them and keep in Azure Artifactory.
• Using them.

• 4 Projects will be assigned based on real-time examples.
• The motto of the Azure DevOps Online course is not to teach tools and Azure cloud individually, rather how to create solutions using them together.
• The entire Azure DevOps online Training will be full of labs so it’s requested to candidate to have Azure account ready.
• No expert coding knowledge required.
• Recordings will be provided for future ref.