Summary

DevOps is gaining a lot of traction and momentum in the industry. Most organizations have realized its benefits and are looking to implement DevOps. This is happening while most of them are moving to the cloud. Azure, as a cloud model, provides rich and mature DevOps services, making it easy for organizations to implement DevOps. In this chapter, we discussed DevOps along with its core practices, such as configuration management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment. We also discussed different cloud solutions based on PaaS, a virtual machine IaaS, and a container IaaS, along with their respective Azure resources, the build and release pipelines. Configuration management was the core part of this chapter, and we discussed DSC services from Azure Automation and using pull servers to configure virtual machines automatically. Finally, we covered Azure...