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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 how to manage your database schema and schema changes using source control. You know about both the migration-based and end state based storing of changes, and how to apply them to your production database in a safe manner.

Additionally, you have learned how schema-less databases can remove the burden of traditional schema management. However, this comes at the price of having to cope with schema differences when reading older versions of an object back from the database.

In the next chapter, you will learn about continuous testing. You will not only learn about testing techniques, but also about which to apply at what point, and how testing is a crucial part of DevOps and a critical enabler of a continuous flow of value to end users.