DevOps foundations: The core principles and practices

Beginner
Administrator
Developer
DevOps Engineer
Security Engineer
Security Operations Analyst
Solution Architect
Student
Support Engineer
GitHub
Azure
Azure Cloud Services
Azure DevOps

Explore DevOps practices using GitHub. Your development and operations teams will experience improved collaboration, agility, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, and operational excellence throughout all phases of the application lifecycle.

Note

You need an Azure subscription to complete the exercises. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account and add a subscription before you begin. If you're a student, you can take advantage of the Azure for students offer.

Prerequisites

  • An Azure Subscription. You need to bring your own subscription.
  • Basic familiarity with IT terms and concepts.

Modules in this learning path

Optimize application lifecycle management through DevOps practices such as collaboration, continuous learning, agility, and automation. Your organization benefits from accelerated time to market, stability and reliability in operations, and minimize mean time to recovery.

Plan your software development projects agilely using GitHub Projects boards. You'll facilitate collaboration, shared responsibility, continuous learning, and optimization through version control, continuous integration and continuous testing, and Infrastructure as Code.

Streamline updates to your software development projects by applying version control with Git and GitHub. Your software lifecycle improves through the implementation of continuous integration, shift-left testing, and shift-left security.

Build and run continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows using GitHub Actions. Your workflows will have accelerated release cycles, increased resiliency, improved collaboration and reusability, and infrastructure as code.

Achieve operational excellence and enhance developer experience in your organization through DevOps. Your operational and development practices improve by implementing shift-right testing, observability through performance and security monitoring, Site Reliability Engineering and platform engineering.