Reviewing DevOps on Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stack Hub is a cloud-based system, and cloud-based systems ease the adoption of DevOps practices. DevOps is made easier with Azure Stack Hub, especially for the following practices:
- Self-service
- CD
- IaC
Azure Stack Hub accomplishes this with a broad ecosystem of tooling, which we will cover in detail in the next section.
Traditional on-premises workflows build and define infrastructure separately from the software, which invariably leads to multiple back and forth between the IT department defining the infrastructure and the developers writing the code that runs on the infrastructure.
This disconnect between IT departments and developers leads to multiple handoffs between them, which in turn leads to longer development cycles and potential downtime for developers while releases are handled by the IT department.
With on-premises deployments, the code is generally written for a specific platform, which leads to...