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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

Further reading

There are many other resources that you may find helpful to learn more about DevOps culture and the DevOps way of thinking. Some of them are as follows:

  • The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford.
  • Effective DevOps, by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels.
  • Accelerate, by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim.
  • Interview with Sam Guckenheimer, available at https://devops.com/11626/.
  • Microsoft Case Study on their DevOps Journey, available at http://stories.visualstudio.com/devops/.
  • The 2018 State of DevOps Report, available at http://info.puppet.com/Eficode-Puppet-State-of-DevOps-Report.html.
  • More information on assessing existing development processes can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/assess-your-development-process/index.
  • More information about different Agile approaches and how to support them using Azure Boards can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/choose-an-agile-approach/index.