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

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 – Digital Transformation through DevOps
Chapter 1: Introduction to DevOps
	Technical requirements
	What is DevOps?
		The relationship between DevOps and Agile
		Goals and benefits of a DevOps culture
	Creating your ideal DevOps organization
	Exploring DevOps practices and habits
		DevOps practices
		DevOps habits
	The five stages of the DevOps evolution
		Normalizing the technology stack
		Standardizing and reducing variability
		Expanding DevOps practices
		Automating infrastructure delivery
		Providing self-service capabilities
	Summary
	Self-practice exercise
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 2: Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to SRE
		Why is reliability so important?
		What is availability?
		Reliability challenges and SRE
	Key principles and practices
		Implementing SLOs and SLIs
		Establishing an error budget policy
		Reducing toil
	Summary
	Self-practice exercises
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 3: Getting the Best Out of DevOps Tools
	SDLC and DevOps tools
		Key activities in a DevOps life cycle
		Tools for your DevOps needs
	Azure DevOps and GitHub
		Azure DevOps
		GitHub
	Azure DevTest Labs
	Azure Monitor
		Azure Monitor Logs
		Azure Monitor Metrics
		Application Insights
	Visual Studio Code
	Summary
	Self-practice exercises
	Questions
	Further reading
Part 2 – Getting to Continuous Delivery
Chapter 4: Everything Starts with Source Control
	Technical requirements
	Types of source control in Azure DevOps
		Centralized source control
		Decentralized source control
		Source control systems
		Migrating between control systems
	Selecting a branching and merging strategy
		Branching strategies
		Merging strategies
	Managing repositories
		Monorepo or multi-repo
		Creating and removing repositories
		Securing repositories
		Branch policies
	Other tools for source control
		GitHub
		GitLab
		Subversion
	Summary
	Questions
	Exercises
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Moving to Continuous Integration
	Technical requirements
	Introducing continuous integration
		The four pillars of continuous integration
	Creating a build definition in Azure DevOps
		Connecting to source control
		Configuring a job
		Adding tasks to your job
		Publishing build artifacts
		Creating variables and variable groups
	Running a build
		Viewing the build results
		Building a pull request
		Accessing build artifacts
	Working with YAML pipelines
		The reason for using build definitions as code
		Writing a basic YAML pipeline
		Multi-job pipelines
		Variables
		Pipeline artifacts
		Tips for writing YAML pipelines
	Agents and agent queues
		Built-in agent pools
		Creating a private agent pool
		Agent selection
		Finding agent capabilities
		The benefits of self-hosted agent pools
	Automating CI builds using GitHub Actions
	Other tools
		GitLab CI
		Jenkins
	Summary
	Questions
	Exercises
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Implementing Continuous Deployment and Release Management
	Technical requirements
	Continuous delivery and continuous deployment
	Working with Azure DevOps releases
		Creating artifacts and release triggers
		Specifying the stages to deploy the release
		Working with deployment groups
	Writing multi-stage YAML pipelines
		Adding stages to YAML pipelines
		Downloading artifacts
		Approvals
	Implementing CD strategies
		Blue-green deployments
		Progressive exposure
		Blue-green versus canary deployments
		Feature flags
		Roll back or fail forward
	Deploying mobile applications
		Connecting to the app store
		Using distribution groups
		Publishing an app
		App Center via Azure Pipelines
	Automating release notes
	Other tools
		Octopus Deploy
	Summary
	Questions
	Exercises
	Further reading
Part 3 – Expanding Your DevOps Pipeline
Chapter 7: Dependency Management
	Technical requirements
	Identifying shared components
		Types of feeds
	Creating a feed
		Setting up a feed
		Managing views on a feed
		Configuring upstream sources
	Publishing packages
		Publishing packages manually
		Publishing packages from a pipeline
		Version basics
	Restoring packages
		Restoring packages from Visual Studio
		Restoring packages from a pipeline
	Working with Universal Packages
		Uploading and downloading Universal Packages from Azure Pipelines
		Uploading and downloading Universal Packages using the Azure CLI
	Exploring other tools
		MyGet
		Artifactory
		Azure Container Registry
	Summary
	Questions
	Exercises 
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Implement Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
	Technical requirements
	Having everything as code
	Working with ARM templates
		Parameters
		Variables
		Functions
		Comments and metadata
		Resources
		Dependent resources
		Nested templates
		Outputs
	Deploying ARM templates
		PowerShell
		The Azure CLI
		Azure Pipelines
		ARM REST API
		Azure Cloud Shell
	Reverse engineering a template
		Using Export template
		Using Resource Explorer
		Subscription-level templates
		Azure Blueprints
		Bicep
	Using Azure Automation
		Automation account resources
		Runbooks
		PowerShell DSC
	Managing application settings
		Azure App Service settings from an ARM template
		Loading settings at runtime from a key vault
		Azure App Configuration
	Other tools
		CloudFormation
		Chef
		Puppet
		Ansible
		Terraform
	Summary
	Activity 
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Dealing with Databases in DevOps Scenarios
	Technical requirements
	Managing a database schema as code
		Migrations
		End state
	Applying database schema changes
		Upgrading as part of the release
		Upgrading with the application code
		Adding a process
	Going schema-less
		Writing objects to the database
		Reading objects from the database
	Other approaches and concerns
		Minimizing the influence of databases
		Full side-by-side deployment
		Testing database changes
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Integrating Continuous Testing
	Technical requirements
	Defining quality
		Metrics for quality
		Technical debt
	Understanding test types
		Types of automated functional tests
		Types of manual functional tests
		Strategies for deciding which types of functional tests you need
		Types of non-functional tests
	Executing tests in a pipeline
		Running unit tests
		Running integration tests
		Running external tests
	Maintaining quality
		Code reviews
		Automatically gathering quality metrics
		Visualizing quality
		Quality gates
	Summary
	Questions
	Self exercise
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Managing Security and Compliance
	Technical requirements
	Applying DevOps principles to security and compliance
		Bringing developers and security engineers together
		Security concerns
	Working with secrets
		Storing secrets in service connections
		Storing secrets in variable groups
	Detecting application code vulnerabilities
		OWASP Top 10
		Implementing automated vulnerability scanning
		The OWASP ZAP
	Working with dependencies
		Working with WhiteSource Bolt
	Ensuring infrastructure compliance
		Assigning an Azure policy or initiative
		Writing an Azure Policy
		Initiatives
		Fetching audit results
	Monitoring and detecting runtime security risks and threats
	Other tools you can use
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Part 4 – Closing the Loop
Chapter 12: Application Monitoring
	Technical requirements
	Investigating application crashes
		Gathering crash reports for mobile applications
		Gathering crash reports for desktop applications
	Instrumenting web applications
		Logging
		Emitting logs
		Metrics
		Investigating requests
		Optimizing alerting
		Having an on-call schedule
		Live site reviews
	Integrating with other tools
		IT service management applications
		Azure Boards
		Grafana
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Gathering User Feedback
	Understanding continuous feedback
		Asking for direct feedback
		Advantages of in-product feedback
		Having a public roadmap
		Using interviews or focus groups
	Gathering indirect feedback
		Sentiment analysis
		Support requests
	Implementing hypothesis-driven development
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Part 5 – Advanced Topics
Chapter 14: Adopting the Culture of Continuous Improvement
	Measuring your DevOps success
	Value stream mapping
	A data-driven approach
	Operationalizing the feedback loop
		Implementing effective feedback loops
	Summary
	Activity
	Further reading
Chapter 15: Accelerate Cloud Adoption through DevOps
	The role of DevOps in digital transformation
	Modernization and cloud adoption
		DevOps is the foundation of modernization
		DevOps drives cloud adoption
	Managing software delivery modernization
		Software life cycle management
		Solution architecture
		Automation practices
		Cloud platform adoption
	Agile transformation and iterative planning
		Roadmap for transformation
	Integrating DevOps in your cloud adoption plan
		Case study
		Usual challenges and DevOps to the rescue
	Summary
	Additional reading
Chapter 16: Containers
	Technical requirements
	An introduction to containers
		DevOps and containers
		Hosting options
	Building a container image
		Creating an application
		Adding Docker support to an existing application
		Creating an image with the application
		Running the container image
	Building images in Azure DevOps and running them in Azure
		Creating a service endpoint
		Creating a new pipeline
	An introduction to Kubernetes
		The functionalities of Kubernetes
		Kubernetes core components and services
		Operation of Kubernetes
		Azure Kubernetes Service
	Kubernetes in action
		Creating a Kubernetes cluster
		Kubernetes infrastructure
		Managing Kubernetes
		Deploying a container image
	Upgrading containers
	Scaling containers and Kubernetes
		Scaling Pods manually
		Scaling nodes
		Autoscaling nodes
	Deploying to Kubernetes with Azure DevOps
	Summary
	Questions
	Exercises
	Further reading
Chapter 17: Planning Your Azure DevOps Organization
	Technical requirements
	Setting up an Azure DevOps organization
		How Azure DevOps is organized
		Creating an Azure DevOps organization and project
		Azure DevOps security model
		Azure DevOps licensing
	Ensuring traceability
		Consolidating tools
		Standardizing tools
		Migration strategies
	Accepting there is no end state
	Summary
	Questions
	Activity
	Further reading
Chapter 18: AZ-400 Mock Exam
	Designing a DevOps Strategy
	Implementing DevOps Development Processes
	Implementing Continuous Integration
	Implementing Continuous Delivery
	Implementing Dependency Management
	Implementing Application Infrastructure
	Implementing Continuous Feedback
	Answers
Assessments
	Chapter 1, Introduction to DevOps
	Chapter 2, Site Reliability Engineering Fundamentals
	Chapter 3, Getting the Best Out of DevOps Tools
	Chapter 4, Everything Starts with Source Control
	Chapter 5, Moving to Continuous Integration
	Chapter 6, Implementing Continuous Deployment and Release Management
	Chapter 7, Dependency Management
	Chapter 8, Implement Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
	Chapter 9, Dealing with Databases in DevOps Scenarios
	Chapter 10, Integrating Continuous Testing
	Chapter 11, Managing Security and Compliance
	Chapter 12, Application Monitoring
	Chapter 13, Gathering User Feedback
	Chapter 16, Containers
	Chapter 17, Planning Your Azure DevOps Organization
Index
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