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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - Third Edition

By : Peter De Tender, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram
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Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - Third Edition

By: Peter De Tender, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy. Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide Third Edition encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management. The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved by leveraging Azure’s capabilities. The guide further acquaints you with practical insights on application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in driving Azure operations right from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Expediting your application life cycle management process

We discussed the pillars of quality for software development earlier in the chapter. So here, let's look at the steps to use in building your life cycle management in Azure DevOps. Making the project small and easy to deploy with its own Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template for resources will help with rapid deployment and application independence. Here is one approach:

  1. Gather customer requirements
  2. Use those requirements to build a backlog and create a definition of "done"
  3. The team starts sizing the backlog and breaking out tasks into smaller manageable chunks, as well as building test plans to test requirements
  4. Build your interactions and paths so your sprints can be defined as tasks
  5. Use a Git repository and build a pull request process to test check-in quality
  6. Trigger build and release to the dev integration environment
  7. Test the build and verify it
  8. Send an email to QA for...