Azure DevOps

✅ What is DevOps?

✅ DevOps vs Traditional IT

✅ Agile Methodology & SDLC overview

✅ CI/CD concepts

✅ Benefits of using Azure DevOps

✅ Azure DevOps Services overview

✅ Organization, Projects & User roles

✅ Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans, and Artifacts

✅ Understanding Azure DevOps architecture

✅ Creating Work Items (Epics, Features, Stories, Tasks, Bugs)

✅ Backlogs & Sprints

✅ Kanban Boards setup

✅ Dashboards, Analytics & Reporting

✅ Work Item Queries and Customization

✅ Git basics

✅ Branching strategies (Git Flow / Trunk Based)

✅ Pull Requests & Code Reviews

✅ Policies for Branching & Repositories

✅ Repo Security & Permissions

✅ Introduction to Pipelines (Classic vs YAML)

✅ Build Pipelines:

• Triggers, Variables, Build Agents
• .NET, Java, Node.js, Python builds

✅ Release Pipelines:

• Multi-stage deployments
• Deployment strategies (Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary)

✅ Approvals & Gates

✅ Secrets management in pipelines

✅ YAML Pipeline Deep Dive

✅ ARM Templates basics

✅ Introduction to Terraform with Azure

✅ Creating and deploying resource groups and infrastructure

✅ Azure Key Vault integration

✅ Manual Testing in Azure

✅ Test Suites, Test Cases & Results

✅ Automated Testing Integration (Selenium/NUnit/Playwright)

✅ Bug tracking and reporting

✅ Package Management overview

✅ Creating and publishing artifacts

✅ Connecting Pipelines with Artifacts

✅ Working with NuGet, npm, Maven feeds

✅ Stages, Jobs, and Tasks in YAML

✅ Environments & Deployment Targets

✅ Kubernetes Deployment (AKS introduction)

✅ Using Service Connections

✅ Monitoring Deployments

✅ Azure Monitor Overview

✅ Application Insights Integration

✅ Alerts and Dashboards

✅ Pipeline monitoring and analysis

✅ Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

✅ Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL)

✅ DevSecOps basics

✅ Integrating Code Scanning & Security Testing

✅ CI/CD for Microservices

✅ Enterprise deployment patterns

✅ Versioning & Release Strategy

✅ Cost & performance optimization