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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

Other tools

There are many tools available besides Azure DevOps. Two other well-known tools are GitLab CI and Jenkins. Some very basic knowledge of these tools will help you to understand how to integrate with them if that is ever necessary. Also, a limited understanding of other tools will help you to quickly understand the concepts and generalize your knowledge of how to work with these other tools.

To highlight how these tools work with the same concepts, both examples in this section are equivalent to the Azure DevOps YAML pipeline in the Writing a YAML build definition section.

GitLab CI

GitLab offers build pipelines using the GitLab CI capabilities. GitLab CI is configured by putting a file with the .gitlab-ci.yml name in the root of a repository. In this file, you can define one or more stages and jobs, along with the tasks that they should perform. An example YAML file for GitLab CI can appear, as shown in the following example:

stages:
   - build...