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

Written by Microsoft MVPs and Azure experts, this comprehensive guide comes with self-study exercises to help you understand the concepts better and move closer to becoming 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 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.

What you will learn

• 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

Who this book is for

The book is for anyone looking to prepare for the AZ-400 certification exam. Software developers, application developers, and IT professionals who want to implement DevOps practices for the Azure cloud will also find this book helpful. Familiarity with Azure DevOps basics, software development, and development practices is recommended but not necessary.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to DevOps
2. Site Reliability Engineering
3. Getting the Best Out of DevOps Tools
4. Everything Starts with Source Control
5. Moving to Continuous Integration
6. Continuous Deployment
7. Dependency Management
8. Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
9. Dealing with Databases in DevOps Scenarios
10. Continuous Testing
11. Security and Compliance
12. Application Monitoring
13. Gathering User Feedback
14. Adopting a Culture of Continuous Improvement
15. Accelerate Cloud Adoption through DevOps
16. Leveraging the value of Containers in DevOps
17. Planning Your Azure DevOps Organization
18. AZ-400 Mock Exam

Subhajit Chatterjee has a Bachelor of Engineering and a graduate diploma on Information Technology. He has also taken up many online certifications that has helped him learn and grow as a software engineering professional.

He has close to two decades of exposure to designing, implementing, and managing software development projects, using Microsoft & Open-Source technologies. He is a seasoned Engineering leader and has delivered many large and complex projects in Azure, IoT, Enterprise Integrations, Web Applications and Mobility space.

He loves to solve problems and has had the privilege to work with customers across the globe. He is passionate about sharing his learnings with the community and enjoys coaching and mentoring his team members.

Swapneel Deshpande is a Solution Architect, Development Consultant, and a Trusted Technology Advisor, entrepreneur, start-up consultant and more. He is working in IT for nearly 2 decades with expertise in .NET and web-related technologies. He has led the software architecture design, development, and delivery of large, complex solutions. He is passionate about embracing new technologies and teaching. He is currently working with Microsoft and his current role involves leading large and complex projects right from architecture to delivery.

Maik van der Gaag is an architect and trainer at 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft cloud. He has over 15 years' experience of providing architecture, development, training, and design expertise. During his career, he has worked on a variety of projects, ranging from cloud transformations to DevOps implementations.

He loves to share his knowledge, which was also one of the reasons why he founded the Dutch Cloud meetup. Maik is a public speaker, writes blogs, and organizes events.

Henry Been has been working in IT for over ten years. He is an independent architect, developer, and trainer in a number of companies. With many of these companies, he has embarked on a journey implementing practices such as continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code, trunk-based development, and implementing feedback loops.

Alongside his work, he creates online training courses for A Cloud Guru, and frequently speaks at meetups and conferences. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in 2019.