Azure for DevOps: Application Infrastructure

Discover strategies, tools, and processes to manage application infrastructure using the Azure DevOps tool and service set.

Introduction

• The need for agile infrastructure
• Who is this course for?

1. Infrastructure and Configuration Management

• Underlying issues with complex deployments
• The need for a strategy
• Components of a strategy
• Manage technical debt

2. Manage Kubernetes Service

• Container orchestration
• Options for provisioning Kubernetes Services
• Manage Kubernetes beyond Azure
• CLI deployment
• Application deployment process
• Application deployment demo
• Define and install an application through Helm
• Create a scaling plan

3. Implementing Infrastructure as Code

• Infrastructure as code technologies
• IaC vs. CM tools
• Modularization and reuse in templates
• Define Terraform file
• Deploy resources via Terraform
• Scanning IaC for security
• Securing secrets in templates
• Demo for security

4. Implement Security and Compliance

• Security and compliance in Azure
• Azure Policies
• Combining compliance with IaC
• PowerShell Desired State Configuration for machine configuration
• Configuration management in Azure
• Azure Automanage deployment

Conclusion

• Teardown of an Azure environment
• Next steps for Azure for DevOps