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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide

You're reading from   Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide Prepare for the certification exam and successfully apply Azure DevOps strategies with practical labs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240664
Length 490 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Swapneel Deshpande Swapneel Deshpande
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Preface 1. Part 1 – Digital Transformation through DevOps
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to DevOps FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals 4. Chapter 3: Getting the Best Out of DevOps Tools 5. Part 2 – Getting to Continuous Delivery
6. Chapter 4: Everything Starts with Source Control 7. Chapter 5: Moving to Continuous Integration 8. Chapter 6: Implementing Continuous Deployment and Release Management 9. Part 3 – Expanding Your DevOps Pipeline
10. Chapter 7: Dependency Management 11. Chapter 8: Implement Infrastructure and Configuration as Code 12. Chapter 9: Dealing with Databases in DevOps Scenarios 13. Chapter 10: Integrating Continuous Testing 14. Chapter 11: Managing Security and Compliance 15. Part 4 – Closing the Loop
16. Chapter 12: Application Monitoring 17. Chapter 13: Gathering User Feedback 18. Part 5 – Advanced Topics
19. Chapter 14: Adopting the Culture of Continuous Improvement 20. Chapter 15: Accelerate Cloud Adoption through DevOps 21. Chapter 16: Containers 22. Chapter 17: Planning Your Azure DevOps Organization 23. Chapter 18: AZ-400 Mock Exam 24. Assessments 25. Index 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Accepting there is no end state

It is fair to expect that, at any point in time, there will be one or more improvements that teams want to make to their applications, toolchains, or way of working. To cope with this, it is recommended to not keep changing everything all of the time.

Instead, try to implement changes in batches or a series of well-defined steps. Also, note there is a natural order to things. It is impossible to practice continuous deployment (CD) without having a proper continuous integration (CI) process first. Also, adopting infrastructure as code (IaC) will deliver the most value when a CD process for application code is already in place. Next, automating governance and security measures works best when having infrastructure and configuration code is common practice. Once all of these practices have been implemented, new things will come up on the radar—future improvements that may be necessary.

Besides this series of improvements, it is also important...

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