Design for deployment, migration, and integration (10-15%)

Design deployments

design a compute deployment strategy
- CI/CD pipelines with AzureDevOps
- GitHub Actions
- Chef/Puppet
design a container deployment strategy
- Azure container registry
design a data platform deployment strategy
- Deploy SQL schema using DACPAC files
design a messaging solution deployment strategy
- Deploy Kafka/RabbitMQ as bundles from Marketplace
design a storage deployment strategy
- Use AzCopy or Azure Pipeline copy task to copy files to storage
- Copy files over SSH into VMs (can be also task in Azure Pipeline)
design a web app and service deployment strategy
- Automated deployment step in Azure Pipeline
- Manually deploy using Kudu (zipped binaries)
- GitHub Actions

Plularsight - Designing Migrations in Microsoft Azure
Visit Azure migration center for more details about migrations
You can also use Azure Site Recovery to support migration plans
recommend a migration strategy
- Migrating workloads with and without downtime
- Lift&Shift vs rearchitect to migrate
design data import/export strategies during migration
- Use Azure Import/Export service
determine the appropriate application migration method
- Rehost (lift&shift), refactor (small changes), rearchitect (larger changes), rebuild from scratch
determine the appropriate data transfer method
- AzCopy
- Database Migration Service (not only for SQL Server)
- Data Box (phisical data mediium transfer)
- Azure Import/Export service
determine the appropriate network connectivity method
- VPN connections or ExpressRoute
determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data
determine application and data compatibility

design an API gateway strategy
- API Management
determine policies for internal and external consumption of APIs
- Different types of policies to manage usage of exposed APIs
recommend a hosting structure for API management
- How to combine APIs into products and expose them to developers through API portals