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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

Restoring packages

Uploading packages to an Azure Artifacts feed or repository makes them available for use in many different scenarios. Two common scenarios are using your own packages with Visual Studio or from Azure Pipelines. Both scenarios will be detailed in the following sections.

Restoring packages from Visual Studio

Once you have your shared libraries available as NuGet packages in an Azure Artifacts feed, you can start using them from Visual Studio. Before you can do this, you will have to register your feed in your Visual Studio instance.

To do this, you first have to grab the URL of your feed. In order to do this, refer to the Publishing packages manually section. Once you have your URL ready, go to manage NuGet files for your solution, as you would do normally. If you are not familiar with working with NuGet packages in Visual Studio, you can find this option in the Solution Explorer on the solution and project headers:

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