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AZ-400 DevOps engineer in German
34 lessons in 8 weeks at 6 hours a week, from 11/13/2026 to 01/07/2027. The weeks follow from the course’s indicative hours (47 hours); how long you actually need is up to you.
Download as calendar file (.ics)
Week 1 · 11/13
Week 2 · 11/20
Week 3 · 11/27
Week 4 · 12/04
- GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines? A GitHub repository with Azure Pipelines, triggers
- Runners and agents: hosted, self-hosted, cost, licenses, connection
- YAML in depth: stages, order, parallelism, conditions, matrix
- Reusable building blocks: templates, task groups, variables, reusable workflows
- Complex scenarios: hybrid, VM templates, self-hosted runners and agents in operation
Week 5 · 12/11
Week 6 · 12/18
Week 7 · 12/25
- Maintaining pipelines: health, cost, concurrency, retention, classic to YAML
- Identities: service principals or managed identities, GitHub sign-in, service connections
- Permissions: roles in GitHub, security groups in Azure DevOps, access levels
- Secrets in automation: Key Vault, secretless sign-in, secure files
Week 8 · 01/01
- Automating security and compliance checks: GHAS, CodeQL, Dependabot, Defender for Cloud
- Monitoring for DevOps: Azure Monitor, Insights, GitHub insights, alerts for pipelines
- Analyzing metrics, distributed traces and logs
- Final project: the DevOps platform of Nordlicht Reisen
- Review: the exam areas and the lessons; what comes next