Summary

As you can see from this chapter, Azure and Azure DevOps have significant synergies. It is essential to create a repeatable, stable way to deploy your code and infrastructure to the cloud. While learning how to deploy this infrastructure to the cloud, we needed to understand why ARM templates are used. This led us to discuss some of the fundamentals and best practices around deploying this infrastructure to leverage our code or applications. We looked at exactly how we need to secure resources and our applications through identity and access control. This brought us to understanding how to create governance in Azure to ensure consistency and compliance.

Azure creates a lot of frameworks that allow you to digest the things that you need to leverage to ensure your applications are secure and complete. It is also good to remember that as you approach Azure, you should approach it from an automation perspective. An organization should develop compliance, Azure governance, and best practices that work across the organization while minimizing its business risk.

Now that we have built a foundation, in the next chapter, we will move on to how we can modernize applications.