In the Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Azure Cloud, of this book, we started our journey in Azure with the creation of our first workload in Azure: the deployment of a Linux virtual machine. After that, we covered many aspects of the Linux operating system.
In Chapter 7, Deploying Your Virtual Machines, we explored several options to deploy your virtual machine, and in the previous chapter, it was all about what to do afterwards in terms of configuration management, using orchestration tooling.
Orchestration is more and more a part of a sort of a movement called DevOps. DevOps is about breaking down the classic silos in an organization. The different teams involved in developing, testing, and deploying products must communicate and work together. DevOps is a combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools. And DevOps is a way...