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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

Exploring other tools

There are many other tools available to do binary management. Four commonly used products are MyGet, Artifactory, GitHub Packages, and Azure Container Registry (ACR). The features they deliver do overlap, but they also have unique attributes at which they excel.

MyGet

MyGet is an alternative location for hosting your NuGet packages and allows you to create both public and private feeds that are managed by you. It also supports defining upstream sources and delivers built-in dependency scanning to give you continuous feedback on the level of security of your dependencies.

Since MyGet is an implementation of the NuGet protocol, you can publish and use packages using the default NuGet tasks from Azure Pipelines.

Artifactory

Artifactory, a product by JFrog, is another tool that you can use to host your package feeds. Artifactory was originally an on-premises product, but it is now also available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Just like...