AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 9.5 - DevOps

DevOps is the work between development and production.

DevOps is at its core about people: how developers, engineers and system administrators organize themselves and work as a team to deliver better products faster.

Azure DevOps

• Azure Boards
  • Keep track of work tasks, timelines, issues, planning and much more. Project managers love this part
• Azure Pipelines
  • Produce and test your software automatically and continuously
• Azure Repos
  • Store source code for your application securely in a managed way. Developers are big fans of this part
• Azure Test Plans
  • Design tests of applications to implement automatically. Quality assurance engineers love this
• Azure Artifacts
  • Share applications and code libraries with other teams inside and outside your organization And it's FREE! To get started at least...

Azure DevTest Labs

• Environment Management
  • Allow developers and engineers to create environments for test and development
• Cost Management
  • You won't incur unexpected costs and will even minimize waste of resources on your account
• Templates
  • Tailor your development and test environments and reuse them with templated deployments

GitHub and GitHub Actions

• GitHub
  • Acquired in 2018 by Microsoft
  • code repository service for lots of big and small projects
  • A favorite among open-source communities
  • Microsoft themselves are one of the biggest users of GitHub
• GitHub Actions
  • Very similar to Azure Pipelines
  • Build code, test code, and publish code
  • Works with almost any platform, such as AWS, GCP, and many more