40501: Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Containers and DevOps

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in designing and validating a Microsoft cloud solution that combines containers, Azure Kubernetes Service, registries, automation, CI/CD, security, observability, and operational practices. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Assess application architecture, dependencies, container suitability, service boundaries, data, environments, and operational goals
• Build and manage container images, Dockerfiles, registries, tags, vulnerabilities, dependencies, and promotion standards
• Design AKS clusters, node pools, namespaces, workloads, services, ingress, configuration, storage, and availability
• Apply scaling, resource limits, health probes, rollout strategies, recovery, and workload reliability controls
• Create CI/CD workflows for source, build, test, image scanning, registry, manifests, approvals, and deployment
• Use infrastructure as code, secrets, managed identities, Key Vault, configuration, and environment separation
• Apply network security, RBAC, policies, image governance, logging, metrics, traces, alerts, and incident response
• Validate architecture, costs, performance, failure recovery, documentation, ownership, and improvement priorities

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.