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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

Working with Universal Packages

The previous sections have all focused on using Azure Artifacts as a means for redistributing application packages, such as libraries or other shared components. However, there is also another important use for Azure Artifacts – to maintain Universal Packages.

A Universal Packages feed can be used to store different types of packages other than those widely used, such as NuGet for .NET, npm for Node.js, pypi for Python, and Maven for Java application development.

You can use Universal Packages for storing and serving your build artifacts in sizes up to 4 TB. Packaging build artifacts into a Universal Package enables quick rollback to the desired version. Packages can be published and retrieved to and from Artifacts feeds using the Azure CLI or Azure Pipelines.

Tip

Universal Packages are only available in Azure DevOps services.

To use Universal Packages for staging your build artifacts in a heterogeneous architecture, there are...