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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 Monitor

Azure Monitor provides rich dashboarding capabilities to help you monitor application-specific metrics, resource health, and utilization to detect anomalies and provide timely intervention. It’s a comprehensive service that allows you to collect, analyze, and act on the ingested monitoring data from a variety of sources, including applications, infrastructure, and other custom sources.

Some key features of Azure Monitor that you must plan to use are as follows:

  • Log Analytics for digging into the monitoring data and deriving deep insights
  • Application Insights for end-to-end transaction traceability, exceptions, and performance metrics
  • Container Insights for microservices usage and health-related statistics
  • Custom dashboards that are tailored to the use cases to track usage and reliability metrics
  • Alerts to detect anomalies and notify teams about the appropriate action, as well as executing automated actions

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