دوره Microsoft Azure DevOps

Mastering AzureDevOps

Duration: 51 Hours 

   Teacher's resume
 Prerequisites 

• Basic coding knowledge
• Familiarity with source control (Git basics)
• Understanding of software development lifecycle.

   Target Audience

• Developers
• Project Managers
• QA Engineers
• DevOps beginners
• IT Administrators

    Objectives  

• Install, configure, and administer Azure DevOps Server on-prem
• Design projects, teams, and repositories with appropriate process templates
• Manage agile planning with Azure Boards
• Use Git for source control
• Build YAML-based CI/CD pipelines
• Run automated tests in pipelines
• Manage NuGet/npm packages with Azure Artifacts
• Use Azure Test Plans for manual, exploratory, and feedback-driven testing
• Secure Azure DevOps
• Administer Azure DevOps
• Understand and use extensions

    Contents  

     DevOps Foundations

• What DevOps is and is not
• The role of culture in DevOps
• Common antipatterns and mistakes
• The Three Ways (Flow, Feedback, Continuous Learning)
• CALMS framework
• Software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps)
• Value stream mapping
• DORA metrics (concepts)
• DevOps vs SRE vs Platform Engineering (overview)
• Introduction to Azure DevOps Services vs Azure DevOps Server

         Installing & Configuring Azure DevOps Server

• Architecture overview (Application Tier, SQL Server, Search Service, Agents)
• Hardware and software requirements (Windows Server, SQL Server)
• Deployment models: Single-Server, Dual-Server, Multi-Server
• Service accounts and Active Directory integration
• Initial configuration
• Enterprise design patterns
• Naming standards and environment strategy

        Azure Boards & Agile Planning

• Process templates
• Work item hierarchy
• Area paths and iteration paths
• Product backlog, sprint planning, capacity planning
• Queries and WIQL
• Dashboards and built‑in widgets
• Analytics Views and OData reporting fundamentals
• Excel integration
• Delivery Plans (Overview)
• Portfolio planning and scaling agile (SAFe – overview)
• Overview of Integration with Jira/Trello

         Enterprise Git & Repository Management

• Git fundamentals review
• Branching strategies
• Pull requests and code reviews
• Branch policies
• Repository security
• Multi‑repository architectures
• Repository governance
• TFVC overview
• Migrating from TFVC to Git

         Azure Pipelines Platform

• Pipeline architecture
• Agent architecture
• Installing and configuring self‑hosted agents
• Agent pools, capabilities, and demands
• Parallel jobs and licensing
• Pipeline permissions and security
• Agent maintenance

       CI/CD with YAMLPipelines

• CI/CD principles
• YAML pipeline structure
• Triggers
• Variables, variable groups and Secure files (certificates, SSH keys)
• Template architecture
• Required templates and pipeline decorators
• Conditions and expressions
• Multi‑stage pipelines
• Container jobs
• Multi‑repository checkout
• Pipeline artifacts
• Pipeline caching
• Approvals, checks, and environment deployment strategies
• Performance Engineering
• Debugging and troubleshooting

         Azure Artifacts & Package Management

• Feeds, views, and upstream sources
• Package types
• Package promotion
• Semantic versioning and package version policies
• Dependency management
• Retention policies and lifecycle management
• Supply chain security basics
• Integrating with Azure Pipelines

        Continuous Testing & Quality in Pipelines

• Shift‑left testing
• Testing models
• Unit tests, integration tests, system tests – running them in pipelines
• Code coverage and coverage thresholds
• Test result publishing and analysis
• Non‑functional testing
• Quality gates
• Feature flags
• Technical debt measurement

        Azure Test Plans

• Test plans, test suites, test cases
• Manual testing
• Test configurations
• Test & Feedback extension
• User acceptance testing (UAT) workflow
• Browser‑based test execution
• Selenium Web UI tests

        Release Engineering

• Service connections
• Environment management and deployment history
• Approval gates and checks
• Deployment strategies
• Classic release pipelines
• YAML release migration

      Dashboards, Wiki &Continuous Feedback

• Azure DevOps dashboards
• Built‑in widgets
• Wiki
• Continuous feedback loops
• Release annotations on dashboards

      Security, Governance& Compliance

• Authentication: Active Directory, PATs, SSH
• Authorization: access levels
• Permission hierarchy
• Groups and roles
• Service account design and credential rotation
• PAT governance
• Repository and branch security
• Secret management
• Audit logs
• Least privilege principle
• Process template customization
• Compliance enforcement

        Administration & Operations

• Backup and restore of collections
• Upgrade planning
• Collection attach/detach
• Disaster recovery basics
• Retention management
• Storage management
• Monitoring health

       Automation & Extensibility

• REST API
• Azure CLI
• WIQL – writing custom queries via API
• Azure DevOps extensions
• GitHub integration