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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

Accelerate Cloud Adoption through DevOps

Digital transformation initiatives focus on making use of modern and emerging technologies to offer a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The adoption of cloud-based technologies has become an integral part of it. Likewise, DevOps also plays a crucial role in accelerating your cloud adoption journey.

However, organizations must first embrace a culture of experimentation, shrug off their old working styles, and shift toward a lean yet iterative software development methodology. DevOps provides just the right mix of tools, practices, and cultural philosophies that will enable organizations to adopt cloud platforms and deliver high-quality applications at high velocity.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • The role of DevOps in digital transformation
  • Modernization and cloud adoption
  • Managing software delivery modernization
  • Agile transformation and iterative planning
  • Integrating...