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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

Integrating DevOps in your cloud adoption plan

DevOps and cloud adoption have fundamentally transformed the way teams build and deploy applications. In fact, in the past few years, organizations have realized the true power of cloud platforms through the adoption of DevOps practices.

Microsoft provides Cloud Adoption Framework, which lays down certain principles, and guidance that organizations can adopt to establish a cloud adoption plan. You can read more about Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/overview.

Microsoft also provides great guidance on architecting applications for the cloud using the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework. You can read more about it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/framework/.

In the next section, we will consider a case study and understand some of the key DevOps strategies that could be applied by an organization in its cloud adoption journey...