AZ-400: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
• Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
• Implement release jobs
• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Provision and configure target environment
• Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
• Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
• Setup test infrastructure

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Use and manage task and variable groups
• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
• Use variables in release pipelines
• Create custom build and release tasks

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Implement automated inspection of health
• Create and configure events
• Configure notifications
• Create service hooks to monitor pipeline

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Identify SQL injection attack
• Understand threat modeling
• Describe key validation points
• Apply security for continuous integration

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Rethink application configuration data
• Understand separation of concerns
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Manage secrets, tokens and certificates

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems
• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Understand and create a service principal
• Create managed service identities

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

• Describe Azure App Configuration
• Understand Key-value pairs
• Understand app configuration feature management
• Implement application configuration

• Introduction
• Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
• Explore build and release tasks
• Explore release jobs
• Explore multi-configuration and multi-agent
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Provision and configure target environments
• Exercise - Set up service connections
• Configure automated integration and functional test automation
• Set up test infrastructure
• Set up and run availability tests
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Examine task groups
• Exercise - create and manage task groups
• Explore variables in release pipelines
• Understand variable groups
• Exercise - create and manage variable groups
• Explore custom build and release tasks
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Automate inspection of health
• Explore events and notifications
• Explore service hooks
• Exercise - Set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Describe SQL injection attack
• Understand threat modeling
• Exercise threat modeling
• Explore key validation points
• Explore security for continuous integration
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Rethink application configuration data
• Explore separation of concerns
• Understand external configuration store patterns
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
• Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
• Explore service principals
• Explore managed service identities
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Introduction to Azure App Configuration
• Examine Key-value pairs
• Examine App configuration feature management
• Knowledge check
• Summary