AZ-400: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

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

• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
• Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
• Understand Azure Pipeline key terms

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

• Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
• Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents
• Configure agent pools
• Make the agents and pools secure

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

• Use and estimate parallel jobs
• Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects
• Use Visual Designer
• Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML

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

• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Explain benefits of continuous integration
• Describe build properties

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

• Define a build strategy
• Explain and configure demands
• Implement multi-agent builds
• Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines

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

• Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure
• Detail templates and YAML resources
• Implement and use multiple repositories
• Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines

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

• Explain GitHub Actions and workflows
• Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
• Describe Events, Jobs and Runners
• Examine output and release management for actions

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

• Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
• Use environment variables
• Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags
• Create and manage secrets

• Introduction
• Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
• Explore job types
• Introduction to agent pools
• Explore predefined agent pool
• Understand typical situations for agent pools
• Describe security of agent pools
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Understand parallel jobs
• Estimate parallel jobs
• Describe Azure DevOps and open-source projects
• Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
• Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Introduction to continuous integration
• Learn the four pillars of continuous integration
• Explore benefits of continuous integration
• Describe build properties
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Configure agent demands
• Implement multi-agent builds
• Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
• Understand the pipeline structure
• Detail templates
• Explore YAML resources
• Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
• Communicate with Azure Pipelines
• Communicate to deploy to target servers
• Examine other considerations
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• What are Actions?
• Explore Actions flow
• Understand workflows
• Describe standard workflow syntax elements
• Explore events
• Explore jobs
• Explore runners
• Examine release and test an action
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Describe continuous integration with actions
• Examine environment variables
• Share artifacts between jobs
• Examine Workflow badges
• Describe best practices for creating actions
• Mark releases with Git tags
• Create encrypted secrets
• Use secrets in a workflow
• Knowledge check
• Summary