AZ-2001 – Implement security through a pipeline using Azure DevOps

  • Duration: 10 weeks
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1. Configure a project and repository structure to support secure pipelines

This module is designed to help learners understand the importance of configuring a secure project and repository structure to support pipelines in Azure DevOps. The module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for organizing the project and repository structure and moving the security repository away from the application project.

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2. Configure secure access to pipeline resources

This module is designed to help learners understand the importance of pipeline security and how to secure pipeline resources using Azure DevOps. The module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for secure agent pools, secret variables, files and storage, service connections, environments, and repositories.

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3. Manage identity for projects, pipelines, and agents

This module is designed to help learners understand the importance of managing identity for projects, pipelines, and agents in Azure DevOps. The module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for configuring a Microsoft-hosted pool, configuring agents for projects, configuring agent identities, configuring the scope of a service connection, and converting to a managed identity.

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4. Configure and validate permissions

This module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for configuring and validating user permissions, pipeline permissions, approval and branch checks, and auditing and managing permissions.

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5. Extend a pipeline to use multiple templates

This module is designed to help learners understand the importance of extending a pipeline to multiple templates and how to do it using Azure DevOps. The module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for creating nested templates, rewriting the main deployment pipeline, configuring the pipeline and the application to use tokenization, removing plain text secrets, restricting agent logging, and identifying and conditionally removing script tasks.

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6. Configure secure access to Azure Repos from pipelines

This module is designed to help learners understand the importance of securing access to Azure Repos from pipelines and how to do it using Azure DevOps. The module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for securing access to packages, credential secrets, secrets for services, and Azure Key Vault.

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7. Configure pipelines to securely use variables and parameters

This module is designed to help learners understand the importance of configuring pipelines to use variables and parameters securely in Azure DevOps. The module covers fundamental concepts and best practices for ensuring that parameters and variables retain their type, identifying and restricting insecure use of parameters and variables, moving parameters into a YAML file that protects their type, limiting variables that can be set at queue time, and validating that mandatory variables are present and set correctly.

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