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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

Building images in Azure DevOps and running them 
in Azure

To support continuous integration and continuous delivery, the source files need to be shared in a repository. So, let’s share the resources in Azure Repos and try to build our container by using Azure Pipelines. After building the container image, a place to store the images and run the container is also required. Within the Azure platform, there are two perfect services for this scenario:

  • Azure Container Registry (ACR): This service is a managed private Docker registry based on the open source Docker Registry. Here, you can maintain and register container images.
  • Azure Container Instance: Azure Container Instances, also referred to as ACI, is a solution for running isolated containers without a lot of management.

Important Note

For the simplicity of this guide, the files are already added to the repository and the Azure resource is already created.

In the next section, we will explore...