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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide - Second Edition

By : Subhajit Chatterjee, Swapneel Deshpande, Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag
Book Image

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide - Second Edition

By: Subhajit Chatterjee, Swapneel Deshpande, Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag

Overview of this book

The AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification helps DevOps engineers and administrators get to grips with practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments using Azure DevOps Services. This new edition is updated with advanced topics such as site reliability engineering (SRE), continuous improvement, and planning your cloud transformation journey. The book begins with the basics of CI/CD and automated deployments, and then moves ahead to show you how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. As you make progress, you’ll explore fitting security and compliance with DevOps and find out how to instrument applications and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. This book will also help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you’ll discover quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices and learn to create your own Azure DevOps organization. By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Digital Transformation through DevOps
5
Part 2 – Getting to Continuous Delivery
9
Part 3 – Expanding Your DevOps Pipeline
15
Part 4 – Closing the Loop
18
Part 5 – Advanced Topics

Publishing packages

Now that you know how to create and manage feeds, it is time to learn how to publish packages to them. If you have experience of publishing packages to public feeds, you will see that publishing to Azure Artifacts works in precisely the same way. There are two ways in which you can publish packages to a feed:

  • Manually from your own computer
  • By using Azure Pipelines

Both options are explored in the following sections.

Publishing packages manually

To upload packages manually, the following steps need to be performed:

  1. First, you will have to retrieve the URL to your feed. To do this, click on Connect to feed for any of your feeds, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 7.7 – Connect to feed

  1. In the list on the left, select the protocol to use for accessing the feed.
  2. Select the correct view to use. Remember that for publishing packages, the full feed URL needs to be used, since views...