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Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

By : Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag
Book Image

Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

By: Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag

Overview of this book

Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions helps DevOps engineers and administrators to leverage Azure DevOps Services to master practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments. This book starts with the basics of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployments. You will then learn how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. Next, you will delve into fitting security and compliance with DevOps. As you advance, you will explore how to instrument applications, and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. The latter part of this book will help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you will understand how to create your own Azure DevOps organization, along with covering quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Continuous Delivery
6
Section 2: Expanding your DevOps Pipeline
12
Section 3: Closing the Loop
15
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to start completing the DevOps loop. You also learned how to work with crash reports and gather them from all types of applications, as well as how to instrument web applications. You now know how to use Application Insights to centralize logs and metrics and to get insight into requests and dependency calls. You also learned how you can integrate Azure Monitor with other tools to further streamline your development processes.

With this knowledge, you can now start learning about how your applications operate in production. By doing so, you can not only deliver your software faster but also learn from its usage and start improving from there.

In the next chapter, you will learn about gathering user feedback to complement what you have learned from your system logs and metrics. You will also learn how to measure the end user satisfaction...