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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure

By : Mitesh Soni
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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

This book will teach you all about the Visual Studio Team Services and Microsoft Azure PaaS offerings that support Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and execution in the cloud with high availability, disaster recovery, and security. You will first be given a tour of all the concepts and tools that Microsoft Azure has to offer and how these can be used in situations to cultivate the DevOps culture. You’ll be taught how to use and manage Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and about the structure of the sample application used throughout the book. You will become familiar with the nitty gritty of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development with VSTS and Microsoft Azure Apps. You will not only learn how to create App service environments, but also how to compare Azure Web Apps and App Service Environments to deploy web applications in a more secure environment. Once you have completed Continuous Integration and created the Platform for application deployment, you will learn more about the final stepping stone in achieving end-to-end automation using approval-based Continuous Delivery and Deployment. You will then learn about Continuous Monitoring, using the monitoring and notification options provided by Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
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Overview of continuous monitoring


CI and CD result in faster time-to-market. That being said, what if something goes wrong in this automated approach? Do we still need to do manual things or any automated or hybrid approach is available to monitor and manage this automation process?

Another question is what to monitor?

The following points can be some of the factors that needs monitoring:

  • Static code analysis – code is not up to the quality gate defined
  • Failure of the CI process
  • Infrastructure or platform issues where an application needs to be deployed
  • Application issues

If we observe properly, then it is all about notifications, infrastructure management, and application monitoring. We already configured notifications in VSTS for alerts and notifications in case of build or release failures. Let's see how we can monitor and manage Azure Web Apps or Azure App Service.

Continuous monitoring not only helps us identify the issue or find the main cause of issue, but it also helps to fix issues to keep...