The AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification helps DevOps engineers and administrators get to grips with practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments using Azure DevOps Services.
This new edition is updated with advanced topics such as site reliability engineering (SRE), continuous improvement, and planning your cloud transformation journey. The book begins with the basics of CI/CD and automated deployments, and then moves ahead to show you how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. As you make progress, you’ll explore fitting security and compliance with DevOps and find out how to instrument applications and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. This book will also help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you’ll discover quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices and learn to create your own Azure DevOps organization.
By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity.
Get acquainted with Azure DevOps Services and DevOps practices
Discover how to efficiently implement CI/CD processes
Build and deploy a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing on Azure
Integrate security and compliance in pipelines
Understand and implement Azure Container Services
Effectively close the loop from production back to development
Apply continuous improvement strategies to deliver innovation at scale