What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to DevOps, provides an overview of the DevOps movement and the culture it represents. This chapter introduces the practices and habits that will be the focus of this book.
Chapter 2, Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals, introduces you to the principles and practices of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), as well as the significance of adopting an SRE mindset to ensure the success of cloud applications.
Chapter 3, Getting the Best Out of DevOps Tools, provides a high-level overview of the various DevOps-related tools that can be used throughout an application development life cycle.
Chapter 4, Everything Starts with Source Control, discusses various approaches to source control and how proper source control is at the heart of continuous delivery.
Chapter 5, Moving to Continuous Integration, covers continuous integration, automated testing, quality control, metrics, code coverage, and the minimum standards necessary to produce a quality product.
Chapter 6, Implementing Continuous Deployment and Release Management, covers how to use the Azure DevOps release pipeline, as well as various deployment patterns and strategies to enable continuous deployment.
Chapter 7, Dependency Management, looks at how Azure Artifacts can help to manage shared components and how to use Azure pipelines to automate the build, release, and even use of these components.
Chapter 8, Implement Infrastructure and Configuration as Code, shows how to configure your application’s infrastructure and how to fully automate the creation or updating of that infrastructure as part of your release.
Chapter 9, Dealing with Databases in DevOps Scenarios, discusses several strategies for treating your database like application code, an infrastructure, or a configuration.
Chapter 10, Integrating Continuous Testing, looks at different types of testing and how they relate to one another using the testing pyramid and how different types of tests can be embedded at different stages of our DevOps pipelines.
Chapter 11, Managing Security and Compliance, shows you how to collaborate with security experts to automate their concerns in a pipeline, rather than manually verifying them later using checklists.
Chapter 12, Application Monitoring, explores application monitoring, which is the process of instrumenting your application to understand application performance and usage patterns and extract key performance indicators.
Chapter 13, Gathering User Feedback, discusses how to use hypothesis-driven development to validate your ideas before putting them into action.
Chapter 14, Adopting the Culture of Continuous Improvement, concentrates on some aspects of organizational culture that have a direct influence on business outcomes.
Chapter 15, Accelerate Cloud Adoption through DevOps, provides an overview of using DevOps through scenarios and guidance while preparing an enterprise cloud adoption plan.
Chapter 16, Containers, provides an overview of containers, which allow you to package any application or tool (developed using any programming language) and deploy it on a basic host or cluster.
Chapter 17, Planning Your Azure DevOps Organization, discusses what works and what doesn’t for your organization and team, as well as how to implement practices and approaches using Azure DevOps.
Chapter 18, AZ-400 Mock Exam, contains a mock test for you to assess your learning.