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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 CD and continuous deployment


CD and continuous deployment are normally used interchangeably. However, there is a minor difference. 

CD is the application deployment into an environment that is not production, so it can be development, QA, stage, pre-production, and so on. 

Continuous deployment is the application deployment into the production environment. 

We need to understand the way an application is deployed in production and non-production environments manually and then try to automate that process. The automated approach of application deployment doesn't change. It is all about the location where the application is getting deployed.

CD makes the application package production ready. Continuous deployment goes through end-to-end automation for release management and manual intervention is not required.

A minor difference is the manual approval process in the environment that makes CD and continuous deployment different from each other. In the case of a production environment...