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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

Getting the Best Out of DevOps Tools

DevOps can be viewed as an approach aimed to improve the overall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, leading to greater collaboration between the teams involved. Hence, using the right set of tools for your DevOps processes and activities is critical to driving consistency and predictability across the various engineering teams. The goal is to establish a culture of innovation by automating the various processes, thereby synchronizing the efforts of the teams (or roles) while developing, testing, and deploying software faster with the highest quality possible.

Microsoft offers great products such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Azure Monitor, and Visual Studio Code that help simplify the adoption of important practices spanning across the various life cycle phases of your DevOps implementation. These tools are feature-rich and offer a best-in-class experience to the developer community. The out-of-the-box experience can be further extended...