• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This learning path helps you prepare for the Implement security through a pipeline assessment using Azure DevOps. Learn how to configure and secure Azure Pipelines. You'll also get opportunities to practice hands-on skills. These skills include configuring secure access to pipeline resources, configuring, and validating permissions, configuring a project and repository structure, extending a pipeline, configuring pipelines to use variables and parameters securely, and managing identity for projects, pipelines, and agents.

Audience profile

The primary audience for this course are

  • Administrator
  • Developer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Security Engineer
  • Security Operations Analyst
  • Solution Architect
  • Student
  • Support Engineer
  • Azure Artifacts
  • Azure Cloud Services
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Pipelines
  • Azure Repos

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Course details

Module 1: Configure a project and repository structure to support secure pipelines

  • Separate a project into team projects and repositories.
  • Separate secure files between projects.
  • Move the security repository away from a project.
  • Assign project and repository permissions.
  • Organize a project and repository structure.

Module 2: Configure secure access to pipeline resources

  • Identify and mitigate common security threats.
  • Configure pipeline access to specific agent pools.
  • Manage secret variables and variable groups.
  • Secure files and storage.
  • Configure service connections.
  • Manage environments.
  • Secure repositories.

Module 3: Manage identity for projects, pipelines, and agents

  • Configure a Microsoft-hosted pool.
  • Configure agents for projects.
  • Configure agent identities.
  • Configure the scope of a service connection.
  • Convert to a managed identity in Azure DevOps.

Module 4: Configure and validate permissions

  • Configure and validate user permissions.
  • Configure and validate pipeline permissions.
  • Configure and validate approval and branch checks.
  • Manage and audit permissions in Azure DevOps.

Module 5: Extend a pipeline to use multiple templates

  • Create nested templates.
  • Rewrite the main deployment pipeline.
  • Configure the pipeline and the application to use tokenization.
  • Remove plain text secrets.
  • Restrict agent logging.
  • Identify and conditionally remove script tasks in Azure DevOps.

Module 6: Configure secure access to Azure Repos from pipelines

  • Configure pipeline access to packages.
  • Configure credential secrets, and secrets for services.
  • Ensure that the secrets are in the Azure Key Vault.
  • Ensure that secrets aren't in the logs.

Module 7: Configure pipelines to securely use variables and parameters

  • Ensure that parameters and variables retain their type.
  • Identify and restrict insecure use of parameters and variables.
  • Move parameters into a YAML file that protects their type.
  • Limit variables that can be set at queue time.
  • Validate that mandatory variables are present and set correctly in Azure DevOps.

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Prerequisites

  • An Azure Subscription. You need to bring your own subscription.
  • Basic knowledge of Azure DevOps.
  • Basic knowledge of security concepts like identities and permissions.
  • Experience using the Azure portal to create resources like Azure Key Vault and set permissions.

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