Speakers: 1. Ashish Raj, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishrajsrivastava/ 2. Nitanshu Sharma, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitanshu-sharma/ Topics Covered: 1. AZ-400 Exam benefit and Azure DevOps Certification Roadmap. 2. Design build automation 3. Implement a build strategy 4. Maintain build strategy 5. Design a process for standardizing builds across organization AzureTalk community references: 1. AzureTalk Telegram Group: https://t.me/azuretalk 2. Azure DevOps Telegram Group: https://t.me/azuredevopspro 3. AzureEzy Website: https://azureezy.com 4. Slides: https://azureezy.com/az-400-designing-and-implementing-microsoft-devops-solutions/ Azure Reference Links Azure Reference Links 1. Popular Microsoft Azure training: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/?WT.mc_id=sitertzn_homepage_learn-redirect-handsonlabs 2. Azure Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ 3. Azure DevOps labs: https://azuredevopslabs.com/

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AZ-400: Define and
implement continuous
integration – Part 1
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Today’s Session Speaker
Ashish Raj
AzureDevOpsPro Founder
MCT, DevOps Architect
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Nitanshu Sharma
AzureTalk Core Team
MCP, Cloud Consultant

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DevOps Expert - Cert Path
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AZ-400: Skills Measured
• Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)
• Manage source control (10-15%)
• Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)
• Define and implement a continuous delivery and release
management strategy (10-15%)
• Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)
• Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-
10%)
• Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)
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Agenda
• Design build automation
• Implement a build strategy
• Maintain build strategy
• Design a process for standardizing builds across
organization
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Design build automation
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Build Pipelines
• Code analysis
• Dependency scanning
• Testing
• Compile
• Configuration Changes
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Quality Gates
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Code Changes Build Artifacts
Code Analysis
Quality GatesCode review

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Testing strategy
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Q1
Q2 Q3
Q4
Unit Tests
Components Tests
Functional Tests
Story Tests
Prototypes
Simulations
Exploratory Tests
Scenarios
Usability Testing
UAT
Alpha/Beta
Performance &
Load
Security Tests
Ility Testing

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Implement a build strategy
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Build Infrastructure
• Available tools
• Cost
• Hosted Agent
• Private Agent
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Azure
Pipelines GitHub
Actions

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CI Triggers
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Code Changes Build Artifacts• Branch
• Schedule
• Path
• Tags

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Build Pipelines
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Code Changes Build Artifacts
• Testing
• Package dependencies
• Configuration changes
• Compile

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Configuration in build
• Db Connection strings
• Application variables
• System variables
• Secrets
• Infrastructure Configuration
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Maintain build strategy
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Pipeline health
• Recognize flaky tests
• Monitor Pipeline execution
• Analyze failure rate
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Pipeline Improvement
• Pipeline Templates
• Common variables and task
groups
• Build time
• Pipeline as Code
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Build Agent capacity
• Compute & Memory
• Run time and other dependencies
• Parallel Jobs
• Agents Access
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Design a process for
standardizing builds across
organization
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Build agent templates
• Using build agents in cloud
• Infra as Code
• Containerized Build environment
• On demand build agents
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Reusable components
• Pipeline as YAML
• Pipeline templates
• Variable groups
• Task groups
• Marketplace extensions
• Custom extensions
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Demo
❑ Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
❑ Creating a basic build pipeline from a template
❑ Tracking and reviewing a build
❑ Invoking a continuous integration build
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Q & A
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Quiz
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Thanks!
https://azureezy.com/az-400
https://t.me/AzureTalk
https://youtube/AzureTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in
/nitanshu-sharma/
https://www.linkedin.com/in
/ashishrajsrivastava/
https://t.me/AzureDevOpsPro