Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide

Prepare for the certification exam and successfully apply Azure DevOps strategies with practical labs, 2nd Edition

By: Subhajit Chatterjee, Swapneel Deshpande, Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag

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eText | 23 September 2022 | Edition Number 2

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Written by Microsoft MVPs and Azure experts this comprehensive guide with self-study exercises will aid in strengthening your understanding of the concepts to become a skilled Azure DevOps engineer.

Key Features

Explore a step-by-step approach to designing and creating a successful DevOps environment
Understand how to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines on Azure
Integrate and implement security, compliance, containers, and databases in your DevOps strategies

Book Description

The AZ-400 Designing and Implementing DevOps certification helps DevOps engineers and administrators to master practices such as CI/CD, containerization, and zero downtime deployments using Azure DevOps Services.

The book starts with the basics of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployments. The new edition brings certain advanced topics such as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Continuous Improvement and how to plan your cloud transformation journey. You will learn how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. Next, you will delve into fitting security and compliance with DevOps. You will also explore 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 will understand how to create your own Azure DevOps organization, along with covering quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge you need to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity.

What you will learn

Get acquainted with Azure DevOps Services and DevOps practices
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

Who This Book Is For

The book is targeted towards anyone who wants to take the AZ-400 certification exam. It will also help software developers, application developers and IT professionals to implement DevOps practices for the Azure cloud. Some familiarity with Azure DevOps basics, software development and development practices is an added advantage.