DevOps is what turns a working app into one that ships reliably, over and over, without heroics. This module covers Azure DevOps — Microsoft's suite for planning, building, testing, and releasing software — and the practices that tie it together: continuous integration, continuous delivery, and Infrastructure as Code.
You'll see how the pieces fit: Azure Boards for planning and tracking work, Azure Repos for source control, and Azure Pipelines for building, testing, and deploying code through YAML-defined CI/CD pipelines with stages, templates, and environments. From there it moves into Infrastructure as Code with Bicep, and how GitHub Actions can drive the same deployments — so your infrastructure changes get the same review, testing, and release discipline as your application code.
Work through the lessons in order, then continue on to Monitoring & Governance.
TechWorld with Nana's introduction to Azure DevOps: Boards, Repos, Pipelines, and Artifacts, then a closer look at build and release pipelines, stages, templates, and environments in Azure Pipelines.
April Edwards and Nana Janashia walk through every component of Azure DevOps hands-on — Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Azure Container Registry, Artifacts, Test Plans, and compliance — with demos deploying to Azure and AWS.
A hands-on walkthrough of Infrastructure as Code with Bicep: defining resources, adding flexibility with parameters and variables, sending data out with outputs, and refactoring into reusable modules.
freeCodeCamp's full AZ-400 course: instrumentation and continuous feedback, source control strategy, GitHub, pipeline automation, containerization, deployment, Infrastructure as Code, and managing sensitive information — a deep dive that doubles as certification prep.