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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

Ensuring infrastructure compliance

Another important topic is that of compliance. In many countries or markets, there are sets of rules and policies that must be implemented or adhered to when creating software. A fair share of these policies relates to the infrastructure that the applications are running on. If this infrastructure is deployed and managed on the Azure platform, Azure Policy can be a powerful tool for ensuring that the infrastructure complies with regulations.

In Chapter 6, Infrastructure and Configuration as Code, the topic of ARM templates was discussed. ARM templates can be viewed as a technique for describing a complete Azure environment as a JSON array with many objects, each describing one resource in an application's infrastructure.

Azure Policy allows you to write policies that query this document and the changes that are being made through any of...