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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

Application Monitoring

In the previous chapters, you learned about applying DevOps principles to software delivery. You learned how to create a pipeline from source control all the way to production. You also learned how to ensure that your delivery is compliant and secure, without sacrificing speed or a focus on the delivery of business value. In this chapter, you will learn how to start transforming this pipeline into a DevOps loop, a continuous process of delivering new software, and then measure how your application performs. This is a continuous journey, as you evaluate how your application fares in production and learn how to proceed next.

To do this, this chapter starts by introducing a means for gathering application crashes. Almost every application will, at some point, throw an unhandled exception and crash. Ensuring that application crashes are gathered and reported...