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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 how to configure your Azure DevOps organization and how to create a layout for your products and teams. You learned what the implications are regarding the different configuration options and how to apply those. Next, you learned how you can use Azure DevOps to add traceability to your development process. You learned how to capture ideas and tasks in stories and tasks and how these can be traced all of the way to a deployment and the other way around. The next thing you learned about is how to approach the consolidation of tools used within your organization and when to stop trying to consolidate tools. Finally, you learned that it is important to continuously keep improving.

With the things you learned in this chapter, you are now capable of setting up and configuring Azure DevOps for your team, teams, or organization. You can create a structure...