Chapter 16: Deploying the Applications in Azure

Deployment is a set of activities we perform to make software applications available for use. The general approach is to take the code, and then build, test, and deploy it to the target systems. Depending on the type of application and the business requirements, the approach that you take to deploy your code might vary. It could be as simple as taking the target system down, replacing existing code with a new version, and then bringing the system up, or it may involve other sophisticated approaches such as blue-green deployment, where you deploy code to a staging environment that is identical to production, run your tests, and then redirect the traffic to staging to make it production.

Modern software development adopts Agile and DevOps to shorten the development cycle and deliver new features, updates, and bugs frequently and reliably to provide more value to customers. To enable this, you will need a set of tools to plan, collaborate...