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Azure for Architects

You're reading from Azure for Architects Implementing cloud design, DevOps, IoT, and serverless solutions on your public cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788397391

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Azure Design Patterns

3. Designing High Availability

4. Implementing Scalability

5. Cloud Security

6. Designing IoT Solutions

7. Designing and Implementing Data Solutions

8. Designing and Implementing Serverless Solutions

9. Designing Policies, Locks, and Tags

10. DevOps on Azure

11. Cost Management

12. Monitoring and Auditing

Chapter 10. DevOps on Azure

Software development is a complex undertaking comprising of multiple processes, tools and involves people from different departments. They all need to come together and work in a cohesive manner. With so many variables, the risks are high while delivering to the end customers. One small omission or misconfiguration and the application might come crashing down. This chapter is about adopting and implementing practices that reduce this risk considerably and ensure that high quality software can be delivered to the customer again and again.

Before getting into the details about DevOps, let's understand problems faced by software companies that are addressed by DevOps.

Organizations are rigid and do not welcome change
Rigid and time-consuming processes
Isolated teams working in silos
Monolithic design and big bang deployments
Manual execution
Lack of innovation

In this chapter, we will go detail about the following:

DevOps
DevOps practices
Configuration management
Continuous...

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