Summary

DevOps is gaining lots of traction and momentum in the industry. Most organizations have realized its benefits and are looking forward to implementing DevOps. This is happening while most of them are moving to the cloud. Azure as a cloud model is rich and mature in providing DevOps services, making it easy for such organizations to implement DevOps. In this chapter, DevOps was discussed at length along with its core practices, such as configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment. We also discussed different PaaS based, virtual machines IaaS, and a container IaaS based cloud solution along with their respective Azure resources, build and release pipelines. Configuration management was the core part of this chapter and we discussed DSC services from Azure automation and using pull servers to configure virtual machines automatically...