AZ-2008: DevOps & GitHub Foundations – Core Principles

The DevOps & GitHub Foundations (AZ-2008) – Core Principles course provides a structured and practical introduction to modern DevOps practices with a strong focus on GitHub and Microsoft Azure DevOps ecosystems. This course is designed to help professionals understand how DevOps culture, automation, and collaboration accelerate software delivery while maintaining quality, security, and operational stability.

Participants will explore the core DevOps lifecycle, including continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), version control, infrastructure automation, and collaborative workflows using GitHub. The course emphasises industry-aligned best practices such as source control strategies, pull request workflows, branching models, and automated testing pipelines.

In addition to technical foundations, the course highlights DevSecOps principles, governance, and compliance considerations, enabling learners to build scalable and secure development pipelines. By combining theoretical concepts with practical GitHub-centric workflows, this training establishes a strong foundation for implementing DevOps in real-world enterprise environments and supports progression toward advanced Azure and DevOps certifications.

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Learn essential DevOps practices such as collaboration, agility, and automation to optimize application lifecycle management.
• Gain practical skills in version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery using GitHub and Azure.
• Understand the benefits of DevOps culture and its impact on accelerating time to market, operational stability, and mean time to recovery.
• Explore agile methodologies and project planning techniques to facilitate collaboration, shared responsibility, and continuous learning.
• Acquire hands-on experience in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD workflows to streamline software development projects.
• Enhance your ability to build and run continuous integration and delivery workflows using GitHub Actions, leading to accelerated release cycles and increased resiliency.
• Achieve operational excellence and enhance developer experience through shift-right testing, observability, Site Reliability Engineering, and platform engineering practices.
• Prepare for real-world scenarios by gaining insights into progressive exposure techniques, performance monitoring, and security assessment strategies.