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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 the concept of infrastructure and configuration as code, its value, and how to use it in practice. For implementing these, you learned about ARM templates, the IaC mechanism for Azure. You also learned about PowerShell DSC for managing the configuration of virtual machines and about different techniques for managing the configuration of your applications. Finally, you learned about several other tools available in the market. You learned which tool can be used in which situation and whether these tools can integrate with Azure DevOps.

With this knowledge, you are now able to start describing the infrastructure and configuration of your application(s) in source control using one or more of the tools you have read about. You are also capable of setting up the means to deliver the infrastructure using automation, either from a release pipeline...