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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

Containers

Over the last couple of years, containers have become a hot topic. They allow you to package any application or any tool, written in any language, and deploy it on a basic host or cluster. When implementing DevOps, containers can be of tremendous value. That is why DevOps and containers are often mentioned in the same breath. However, they are not the same thing. While DevOps is a cultural thing, containers are a type of technology, an alternative way of hosting your applications.

In this chapter, you will learn more about containers and how they work. This is achieved by exercises wherein custom container images are created and run on different hosting platforms, such as Azure Container Instances and Kubernetes.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • An introduction to containers
  • Building a container image
  • Building images in Azure DevOps and running them in Azure
  • An introduction to Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes in action
  • Upgrading...