About Course

1. DevOps Fundamentals & Agile Practices

• DevOps culture, principles, and benefits
• Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies
• DevOps lifecycle and workflows
• Dev vs Ops collaboration
• CI/CD overview and use cases

2. Azure Fundamentals for DevOps

• Azure architecture and core services
• Azure subscriptions, tenants, and management groups
• Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) basics
• Resource groups and Azure governance
• Azure CLI and PowerShell fundamentals

3. Source Control & Version Management

• Git fundamentals and workflows
• Branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based)
• Azure Repos (Git & TFVC)
• Pull requests and code reviews
• Managing repositories and permissions

4. Continuous Integration (CI)

• CI concepts and best practices
• Azure Pipelines architecture
• YAML pipelines vs Classic pipelines
• Build pipelines for:
  • .NET applications
  • Java applications
  • Node.js applications
• Build validation and triggers
• Artifact creation and management
  

5. Continuous Delivery & Release Management (CD)

• Release pipelines concepts
• Multi-stage YAML pipelines
• Deployment strategies:
  • Blue-Green
  • Canary
  • Rolling deployments
• Environment approvals and gates
• Managing secrets and variables

6. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• IaC concepts and benefits
• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
• Bicep language fundamentals
• Terraform basics for Azure
• Parameterization and reusable templates
• Infrastructure versioning and automation

7. Configuration Management & Automation

• Azure Automation overview
• Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• PowerShell scripting for DevOps
• Bash scripting basics
• Runbooks and scheduled automation

8. Containerization with Docker

• Container fundamentals
• Docker architecture and components
• Creating Dockerfiles
• Building and managing container images
• Azure Container Registry (ACR)
• Container security best practices
  

9. Kubernetes & Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Kubernetes architecture and components
• Pods, deployments, services, and namespaces
• AKS cluster creation and management
• CI/CD pipelines for AKS
• Scaling, rolling updates, and rollback
• AKS security fundamentals

10. Azure DevOps Artifacts & Dependency Management

• Azure Artifacts overview
• Package feeds (NuGet, npm, Maven)
• Managing versioned packages
• Integrating artifacts into pipelines

11. Monitoring, Logging & Performance

• Azure Monitor overview
• Log Analytics and Application Insights
• Alerts and dashboards
• Monitoring CI/CD pipelines
• Performance optimization techniques

12. Security & Compliance in DevOps (DevSecOps)

• DevSecOps principles
• Secure pipelines and secret management
• Azure Key Vault integration
• Identity and access control (RBAC)
• Security scanning in CI/CD
• Compliance and governance basics

13. Testing & Quality Assurance

• Testing strategies in DevOps
• Unit, integration, and functional testing
• Automated testing in pipelines
• Test plans and reporting
• Code quality analysis
  

14. Azure Boards & Work Item Management

• Azure Boards overview
• Backlogs, sprints, and work items
• Linking work items to code and pipelines
• Agile project tracking and reporting

15. Migration & DevOps Transformation

• Application migration strategies
• On-prem to Azure DevOps migration
• Legacy application modernization
• DevOps maturity models
  

16. Real-Time Projects & Hands-On Labs

• • CI/CD pipeline for a cloud application
  • Infrastructure deployment using ARM/Bicep/Terraform
  • Dockerized application deployment on AKS
  • End-to-end DevSecOps pipeline
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting live environments