Azure

AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

Become a full-stack DevOps engineer in just 5 instructor-led days. This intensive course shows you how to plan, build, secure, release and monitor modern apps with Azure DevOps & GitHub – preparing you for the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (Exam AZ-400).

Why choose this course?

  • End-to-end coverage – boards, repos, pipelines, artifacts, environments & feedback loops in a single bootcamp.
  • Hands-on labs for CI/CD, container builds, IaC (ARM, Bicep, Terraform) and secure release gates.
  • Maps directly to the DevOps Engineer Expert credential – one of Microsoft’s top-tier certifications.
  • Hybrid delivery: attend on-campus or virtually from anywhere in South Africa.

This course is ideal for:

  • Developers or infra engineers ready to own the full build-test-release cycle.
  • Site Reliability / DevOps pros who need deeper Azure DevOps & GitHub skills.
  • Teams migrating on-prem pipelines to cloud-native DevOps.
  • Anyone planning to sit Exam AZ-400 on their Microsoft certification path.

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of Azure, Git source control, Agile practices and core software-development principles. Experience working in a software-delivery organisation is helpful (Microsoft AZ-104 or equivalent recommended).

Course Content

  • Plan for DevOps Transformation – team structures, KPIs, tool integration
  • Source Control Fundamentals – Azure Repos & GitHub migration
  • Scale Git for Enterprise – branching, pull-request reviews, Git hooks
  • Artifact & Dependency Mgmt – package feeds, versioning, security scans
  • Continuous Integration – YAML pipelines, self-hosted agents, multi-stage builds
  • Manage Config & Secrets – Key Vault integration, secure pipelines
  • Code Quality & Security Policies – SonarCloud, OWASP checks
  • Container Build Strategy – Docker, AKS build pipelines, micro-services
  • Design a Release Strategy – high-quality release pipelines, gates, approvals
  • Release Management Workflow – environments, functional tests, dashboards
  • Deployment Patterns – blue-green, canary, feature flags, progressive exposure
  • Infrastructure as Code – ARM/Bicep, CLI, PowerShell, Terraform & Ansible
  • Monitoring & Feedback Loops – App Insights, Azure Monitor, SRE practices

Hardware Requirements

Interested?

Enquire today and one of our consultants will be in touch.