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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 about continuous delivery and deployment and how you can implement them using Azure DevOps. In addition to the visual release editor, you also learned about multi-stage YAML pipelines, which you can use for releasing your software to multiple stages, all of the way to production. Next, we discussed a series of strategies that you can use for releasing. You now know about blue-green deployments, using immutable servers, and different strategies for progressive exposure. You also learned how to choose between making sure you have rollback capabilities or accepting a fail forward strategy.

Then, you learned about automating release notes and documentation and how you can generate those automatically as part of your pipeline. After that, you learned about continuous deployment for mobile applications and how that differs from the delivery of web...