AZ-400: Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)

Design an application infrastructure management strategy

Assess a configuration management mechanism for application infrastructure
Define and enforce desired state configuration for environments

Implement a build strategy

Design and implement build agent infrastructure
- cost
- tool selection
- licenses
- maintainability
Develop and implement build trigger rules
Develop build pipelines
Design build orchestration (products that are composed of multiple builds)
Integrate configuration into build process
Develop complex build scenarios
- containerized agents
- hybrid
- GPU

Maintain build strategy

Monitor pipeline health
- failure rate
- duration
- flaky tests
Optimize build
- cost
- time
- performance
- reliability
Analyze CI load to determine build agent configuration and capacity

Design a process for standardizing builds across organization

Manage self-hosted build agents
- VM templates
- containerization
Create reuseable build subsystems
- YAML templates
- Task Groups
- Variable Groups

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