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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 about source control. We saw that there are two types of source control: centralized and decentralized, both supported by Azure DevOps. TFVC is no longer recommended for new projects. You should use Git whenever starting a new project.

When using Git, you can have more than one repository in your team project. Per repository, you can assign policies to lock down specific branches and enforce the four-eyes principle. You have also learned about access control and how to provide users access to one or more repositories. Finally, you have learned about alternative tools and how to migrate sources from one tool to the other.

You can use what you have learned to make decisions on which type of source control system to use in your products. You can now professionally organize the repository or repositories you work in. You are now able to work...