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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

Accepting there is no end state

It is fair to expect that, at any point in time, there will be one or more improvements that teams want to make to their applications, toolchain, or way of working. To cope with this, it is recommended to not keep changing everything all of the time.

Instead, try to implement changes in batches or a series of well-defined steps. Also, note there is a natural order in things. It is impossible to practice continuous deployment without having a proper continuous integration process first. Also, adopting infrastructure as code will deliver the most value when a continuous deployment process for application code is already in place. Next, automating governance and security measures works best when infrastructure and configuration code is common practice. And once all of these practices have been implemented, new things will come up on the radar—...