Welcome to our comprehensive course on Azure DevOps, where we'll dive deep into concepts, demos, and real-time projects to help you master Azure DevOps and bolster your DevOps skills. This playlist will be published on a YouTube channel and is free for anyone to use and follow.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_N5oHwwmTQ&list=PLl4APkPHzsUXseJO1a03CtfRDzr2hivbD&pp=iAQB)

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Status: Check out 👉 Day1 👈 folder for notes and useful links ✅

• What is Cloud Computing
• IaaS VS PaaS VS SaaS
• What is a Shared Responsibility Model
• What is a Traditional Build and Deployment workflow
• What is a Waterfall model in SDLC
• Problems with the traditional software development life cycle (SDLC)
• What is Agile, and how does it solve the above challenges
• What is DevOps and Why It Matters
• What is CI/CD
• What is Azure DevOps and a quick walkthrough
• Creating an Azure DevOps Organization
• Creating an Azure DevOps Project
• Azure DevOps Pricing
• Azure DevOps hosting options: Azure DevOps Services VS Azure DevOps Server

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• What are Azure DevOps Boards
• What are Azure board processes, agile, scrum, basic, and CMMI
• Managing work items in Azure boards
• Azure board implementation using basic process
• Working with teams, areas, and iterations
• Filters in backlogs and boards
• Azure board implementation using the scrum process
• Sprint planning and capacity planning
• Product backlog and taskboard
• Customizing Kanban boards
• Customizing dashboards
• Work item query
• Customizing team process

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• Introduction to Source Control and Azure Repos
• Git vs TFVC
• Configure Visual Code
• Cloning the repo
• Commit changes
• Reviewing history
• Working with branches
• Tagging a release
• Managing repository
• Managing Pull requests
• Sample application code

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• Provision Azure App Service to host the website.
• Creating Build Pipelines using the classic editor
• Creating build pipeline using YAML
• YAML pipeline structure, the difference between jobs, stages, steps, and tasks
• Creating a multi-stage CICD pipeline
• variables, triggers, Build properties, agents
• Publishing and Download Build Artifacts

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• Automating Deployment with a multi-stage Release Pipelines
• Continuous Deployment Triggers
• Continuous delivery using deployment slots to enable Blue-Green deployment
• Deployment gates such as Query Work Items and Approvals before the prod deployment
• Update the code to test the entire CICD process with the Build and Release pipeline

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• Azure Test Plan Overview
• Features of Azure test plan
• Managing Test Plans, Suites and Cases
• Subscribe to the test plan free trial
• Authoring, Running, and Analyzing Manual Tests
• Azure Test and Feedback extension

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• Overview of Azure Artifacts
• Create the Azure DevOps project and check out the application code
• Set up the infra using Azure Web App
• Create Azure Artifacts feed to host the packages
• Create the CI pipeline that builds the package and pushes it to the feed
• Create the CD pipeline that consumes the package
• Promote the package to trigger the release pipeline
• Upstream packages in Azure Artifacts

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• Introduction to IaC and Tools
• Various Terraform commands and workflow
• Creating Terraform configuration files
• Setting up terraform backend with Azure storage
• Executing Terraform commands using CLI
• Azure DevOps CI Pipeline to init, plan, and archive the plan file
• Azure DevOps CD pipeline to apply the changes

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• Microsoft-hosted vs. self-hosted agents
• Use case of self-hosted agents
• Ways to setup self-hosted agents: VM, VMSS, container
• What is a Virtual machine scale set
• Set up a self-hosted agent using VMSS
• Register the agent on an agent pool
• Install custom utilities on the agent
• Use the self-hosted agent on a pipeline
• Comparison between self-hosted and Microsoft-hosted agents
• work folder walkthrough on agent

Status: Check out 👉 Day10 👈 folder for notes and useful links ✅

• What is a container
• Understanding Virtual machine V/s Containers.
• Challenges with the non-containerized applications
• Docker Architecture
• Containerize a sample To-Do list web app written in React JS.
• Benefits of a multi-stage docker file
• What are Azure container instances(ACI)
• Azure DevOps CICD Pipeline to deploy to ACI

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• Basic Introduction of Kubernetes and its benefits
• Kubernetes Architecture
• What is the control plane and its components
• What are Nodes and types of Nodes
• What is a Pod/Deployment/Service
• Azure DevOps CICD Pipeline for a web app running on Kubernetes
• Sample application: My Health Care - Microservices-based Healthcare management app

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• Enabling advanced security in Azure DevOps
• Dependency Scanning
• Secret scanning and managing alerts
• How to use secrets in your pipeline
• Code scanning for vulnerabilities
• Sample Application: My Health Care - Microservices-based Healthcare management app

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• Introduction to Azure functions
• Use case and benefits of an Azure function
• Introduction to the sample app to be used for this demo: Serverless QR Code Generator
• Demo creating the Azure function and deploying locally
• Publishing the function to Azure using CLI tools
• Build and release pipeline for building and deploying the code to Azure Functions

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• Overview of wiki
• Creating and editing a project Wiki
• Publishing code as Wiki
• How we can use Azure DevOps wiki to collaborate on a project

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• Azure DevOps Access Control
• Organization Settings
• Agent pools Management
• Pipeline settings
• Project-level Settings
• Pipeline security
• Repo settings
• Authentication and Authorization
• Secrets and credentials access

Status: Check out 👉 Day16 👈 folder for notes and useful links ✅

Most common issues you have faced throughout the series and solutions.

• No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted
• No Configuration Files Found Error: Terraform
• Classic Editor (or) Release pipeline not visible in Azure DevOps
• After Deployment, Deployment Succeded but did not load any data
• Deployment Slots