Can the program be customized?

Yes. DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices supports customization around lab depth, demo context, certification focus, and team-specific scenarios.

Yes. This program includes instructor-led labs and practical exercises aligned to real implementation patterns.

How does this align with official certification or curriculum?

This program is aligned to the official Microsoft Learn curriculum and learning path referenced for this track.

How are prerequisites assessed?

We review prerequisite readiness during scoping and can recommend preparatory modules or a skills checkpoint before cohort start.

What happens after the program?

Private cohorts receive a handover summary, recommended next learning paths, and optional follow-on advisory for rollout or certification readiness.

Microsoft Official Curriculum

DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices

This course provides fundamental level skills in DevOps practices. Students will learn about the DevOps culture and how to optimize application lifecycle management through Agile planning and management, version control, continuous integration, continuous testing, shift-left testing, continuous deployment/delivery, infrastructure as code, observability, security monitoring, Site Reliability Engineering, and platform engineering.

Role-Based Certification PrepTrack: AZ-2008Official Source: Microsoft LearnMicrosoftBeginner

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Program Snapshot

Engagement scoped to cohort

Duration1 day

FormatVirtual, On-site, or Hybrid

LevelBeginner

Course CodeAZ-2008

Certification TrackAZ-2008

SubjectSoftware Dev

MCT-led delivery
Private cohort / virtual ILT
Typical response: 1 business day

Scoping call typically scheduled within one business day

VNode ITeS delivers DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices as an MCT-led Microsoft program for Administrator, Developer, Devops Engineer, Student. Typical duration is 1 day (Virtual, On-site, or Hybrid). Labs follow production-shaped scenarios rather than slide-only walkthroughs. Certification prep maps to AZ-2008 without turning the week into a dump of Learn modules. Private cohorts can shift emphasis by role mix, workspace or repo constraints, and rollout timing.

Audience Profile

Built for these roles

This course is designed for students who are interested in exploring DevOps culture and practices.

Administrator
Software Dev
Certification Readiness
Tailored Team Delivery

Overview

Executive overview

Official Microsoft Learn-aligned instructor-led program for DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices.

Prerequisites

Relevant foundational experience in the target technology area.
Comfort with hands-on labs in a cloud or GPU-accelerated environment.

Program Outcomes

Capabilities your teams will gain

Strengthen capability in administrator scenarios
Strengthen capability in developer scenarios
Strengthen capability in devops engineer scenarios
Strengthen capability in student scenarios

Enterprise Delivery

Official learning & delivery options

Review the vendor learning resource, then book a consultation or request a private cohort for your team.

View Official Learning Book a Consultation Request Private Cohort Open in learning platform Program brief (PDF)

Curriculum

Curriculum roadmap

Administrator
Developer
Devops Engineer
Student
Azure

Module 1

DevOps foundations: The core principles and practices

Explore DevOps practices using GitHub. Your development and operations teams will experience improved collaboration, agility, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, and operational excellence throughout all phases of the application lifecycle. (AZ-2008)

Discover DevOps
Plan with DevOps
Develop with DevOps
Deliver with DevOps
Operate with DevOps

Delivery Models

Delivery models

Virtual ILTOnsiteHybridExecutive WorkshopBootcampWeekend

Engagement Fit

Engagement fit

Certification readiness
Implementation-focused labs
Private cohort delivery
Beginner practitioner depth

Enterprise Customization

Enterprise customization

Tailor this program to your organization's priorities: Builds current Microsoft credential readiness for DevOps Foundations: The Core Principles and Practices using the official Microsoft Learn outline.

Align labs to your production environment and platform priorities
Add readiness reviews and instructor-led practice sessions
Extend into project-specific architecture or delivery coaching

Credentials

Certification & official source

•AZ-2008

Aligned to the official Microsoft Learn course and learning path for this program.

View Official Microsoft Learn Page

Resources

Program resources

Yes. Most enterprise clients prefer private delivery scoped to role mix, timezone, and rollout timeline. We align lab environments and scenarios to your tenant context where applicable.

Program brief (PDF)View Official Microsoft Learn Page

Enterprise Proof

Trusted delivery outcomes

“We needed a partner who understood both the technical depth of Azure OpenAI and the governance requirements of an enterprise.”

Banking & Finance

Representative Enterprise Banking Team

The focus was not just on tooling knowledge, but on helping teams work from a shared operating model as they adopted a more modern data platform.

Clearer platform operating model across teams
Improved confidence in modern data stack adoption

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Healthcare

Representative Healthcare Product Team

The engagement helped product and engineering stakeholders move from interest in AI to clearer implementation choices, security expectations, and prototyping discipline.

Stronger alignment between product and engineering teams
Improved clarity on prototype-to-production requirements

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Delivery Capability

Enterprise-grade instruction

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MCT-led delivery

Programs led by Microsoft Certified Trainer practitioners

Enterprise program oversight

Founder-led specialist delivery with structured rollout planning

Global delivery

APAC · EMEA · Americas · Virtual & Onsite

Implementation-focused

Hands-on labs aligned to production scenarios

Plan delivery