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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

Azure DevOps and GitHub

Azure DevOps and GitHub are two powerful Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings from Microsoft that serve as a complete DevOps toolset. From managing your backlog and team processes to a Git-based code repository to having the ability to execute CI/CD processes with automated testing, you will discover that GitHub and Azure DevOps is the perfect solution for you.

In the following subsections, we will explore the unique features of these two tools.

Azure DevOps

Originally, being part of the Visual Studio suite of products, the present-day Azure DevOps is perhaps the most used product by engineering teams to manage their source code and application life cycle processes. It was formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Online before that.

Azure DevOps is an Azure cloud-hosted version of the Azure DevOps server, previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS) within the developer community. The main services that are available...