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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 have learned what containers are and how they relate to DevOps. Where DevOps is more of a cultural thing, containers are a way to support it technically. You have also learned how to create container images via a Dockerfile, and specifically by using a multi-stage build file. Finally, we dived into Kubernetes, where we learned a way to host containers and also manage the running containers by using the kubectl command.

Using the knowledge acquired in this chapter, you are now able to deploy applications to Kubernetes and make sure that it scales with the number of requests it receives.

In the next chapter, you will learn more about facilitating the DevOps process by using Azure DevOps. You will learn what works for your organization and team and what doesn't and how to implement that structure and your approach using Azure DevOps.

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