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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

Infrastructure and Configuration as Code

In the previous chapter, the focus was on storing and building application code and releasing the created binaries. You learned how to create a pipeline, from source control to a target environment for the automated, repeatable deployment of your applications.

In this chapter, you will learn how to apply the same principles to the infrastructure that your application runs on and the runtime configuration of your application. Doing so will help you to further increase the speed at which changes can be delivered to production, increasing the flow of value to your end users.

This chapter will start off by explaining the value of having everything, infrastructure and configuration included, as code. Next, it continues by explaining ARM templates. The syntax will be explained, as well as how to deploy ARM templates. Then, it proceeds to explain...