AZ-400: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

  • Learning Path
  • 6 Modules

At a glance

This learning path provides comprehensive coverage of automated release gates, secrets, and secret management within pipeline architectures. Content encompasses alerting mechanism implementation, quality reporting methodologies, and service hook notification systems enabling proactive DevOps monitoring and incident response capabilities.

Prerequisites

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Modules in this learning path

Introduction to deployment patterns

This module delivers comprehensive deployment pattern analysis through microservices architecture exploration, classical deployment methodology examination, and modern continuous delivery strategy implementation for optimized release cycle management.

Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

This module delivers comprehensive blue-green deployment methodology implementation and feature toggle architecture design for controlled progressive delivery, zero-downtime releases, and dynamic feature management.

Implement canary releases and dark launching

This module delivers comprehensive canary release implementation strategies, Azure Traffic Manager configuration for gradual traffic shifting, and dark launching methodologies for risk-mitigated progressive delivery.

Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

This module delivers comprehensive A/B testing implementation strategies, progressive exposure deployment patterns, and ring-based CI/CD architectures for data-driven feature validation and phased rollout orchestration.

Integrate with identity management systems

This module delivers comprehensive identity integration strategies encompassing GitHub single sign-on (SSO) authentication, Microsoft Entra ID workload identities, service principal provisioning, and managed identity implementations for secure DevOps workflows.

Manage application configuration data

This module delivers comprehensive configuration management strategies encompassing externalized configuration patterns, separation of concerns architectures, Azure App Configuration implementation, Key Vault secret management integration, and dynamic feature flag orchestration for secure, maintainable application settings.

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