Overview
- Module 1: Build a basic deployment workflow for Bicep infrastructure as code templates by using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Automate Bicep deployments by using a workflow in GitHub Actions
- Set up a GitHub secret to authenticate a workflow to Azure
- Select an appropriate workflow trigger and set of tasks for a Bicep deployment
- Module 2: Learn how to create, manage, and grant permissions to service principals, which enable your deployment pipelines to securely authenticate to Azure.
- Explain what a service principal is, how it works, and how it compares to a managed identity
- Create a service principal and manage its keys
- Configure the appropriate authorization for a service principal to deploy Azure resources
- Module 3: Build a deployment workflow for Bicep infrastructure as code templates. Lint, validate, preview, and test your Bicep code by using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Add Bicep code linting during continuous integration
- Add preflight deployment validation during build or release jobs
- Add what-if checks, including manual approval steps
- Verify the configuration of the deployed environment
- Module 4: Build a deployment workflow for Bicep IaC templates. Deploy to multiple environments by using reusable workflows. Learn how to provide environment-specific parameters from your workflow.
- Deploy Bicep files to multiple Azure environments from a workflow
- Use reusable workflows to avoid repetition
- Use and secure parameters for each environment
- Module 5: Build a deployment workflow for Bicep infrastructure as code templates. Create a single workflow to deploy infrastructure, applications, and data.
- Deploy Azure infrastructure, applications, database scripts, and storage blobs from a single workflow
- Use workflow scripts and workflow actions to perform deployment steps
- Use workflow artifacts to publish compiled files for your deployment workflow jobs to use
- Pass data from your Bicep files to other deployment steps by using outputs
Contents
Syllabus
- Module 1: Build your first Bicep deployment workflow by using GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- Understand GitHub Actions
- Exercise – Create and run a basic workflow
- Deploy Bicep files by using a workflow
- Exercise – Create a GitHub secret
- Exercise – Add a Bicep deployment action to the workflow
- Use triggers to control when your workflow runs
- Exercise – Update your workflow’s trigger
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 2: Authenticate your Azure deployment pipeline by using service principals
- Introduction
- Understand service principals
- Create a service principal and key
- Exercise – Create a service principal and key
- Grant a service principal access to Azure
- Exercise – Authorize your service principal for deployments
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 3: Test your Bicep code by using GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- Understand workflow jobs
- Lint and validate your Bicep code
- Exercise – Set up your environment
- Exercise – Add lint and validate jobs to your workflow
- Preview and approve your deployment
- Exercise – Add a preview job to your workflow
- Test your resources after deployment
- Exercise – Add a test job to your workflow
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 4: Manage multiple environments by using Bicep and GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- Understand environments
- Handle similarities between environments by using reusable workflows
- Exercise – Set up your environment
- Exercise – Add multiple environments to your workflow
- Handle differences between environments by using Bicep parameters
- Exercise – Use Bicep parameters with multiple environments
- Knowledge check
- Summary
- Module 5: Manage end-to-end deployment scenarios by using Bicep and GitHub Actions
- Introduction
- Understand end-end deployments
- Configure applications and virtual machines
- Exercise – Set up your environment
- Exercise – Deploy a web application
- Configure storage and databases
- Exercise – Seed a storage account and database
- Knowledge check
- Summary
