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CI/CD, Deployment & Observability

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Microsoft

CI/CD, Deployment & Observability

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design AI CI/CD pipelines with evaluation gates, environment promotion, and rollback using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.

  • Implement progressive deployment strategies using Azure API Management as an AI gateway with blue/green, A/B, and canary rollout configurations.

  • Deploy GenAI orchestration logic across managed endpoints, Azure Container Apps, and Foundry Agent Service with versioning and dependency management.

  • Build observability architectures with distributed tracing and LLM-specific monitoring for hallucination, drift, and quality degradation.

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22 assignments¹

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There are 11 modules in this course

This module teaches you to design CI/CD pipeline architectures for AI solutions with checks for quality and safety before environment promotion, plus post-deployment monitoring signals that detect regressions after release.

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2 videos2 readings1 assignment1 ungraded lab

This module teaches you to design CI/CD pipelines that handle the multiple asset types in AI solutions, with separate promotion tracks and dependency management to ensure coordinated, safe deployments.

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1 video2 readings3 assignments

This module teaches you to design and configure Azure API Management as a centralized AI gateway that provides enterprise-grade controls for Azure OpenAI deployments.

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2 videos2 readings1 assignment1 ungraded lab

This module teaches you to design and implement progressive rollout strategies that enable safe model updates with automated rollback capabilities.

What's included

2 videos2 readings3 assignments

This module teaches you to evaluate orchestrator deployment options and select the appropriate platform based on latency, cost, scalability, and operational requirements.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments

This module teaches you to design versioning schemas and deployment processes that manage the complex dependencies between orchestrators and their dependent assets.

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1 video2 readings3 assignments

This module teaches you to design GenAI observability architectures with distributed tracing that provides visibility across the complete request path from user to model and back.

What's included

2 videos2 readings2 assignments

This module teaches you to configure production dashboards, set up continuous evaluation on live traffic, and implement alerting for quality and safety metrics.

What's included

1 video3 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab

This module teaches you to design monitoring strategies that detect LLM-specific quality issues and systematically identify root causes for degradation.

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1 video2 readings2 assignments

Configure continuous evaluation pipelines that provide ongoing quality assessment of production LLM systems with alerting and investigation integration.

What's included

1 video3 readings2 assignments1 ungraded lab

In this project, you'll design a complete enterprise deployment and monitoring architecture for a production GenAI platform. You'll create CI/CD pipeline designs with evaluation gates, configure AI gateway and progressive rollout strategies, design observability architecture with LLM-specific monitoring, and produce a deployment operations runbook—demonstrating your ability to operationalize enterprise AI at scale.

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3 readings1 assignment

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