Safe Deployment Practices: How to Deploy Changes Confidently

Explore safe deployment practices for implementing changes in your environment through this comprehensive 55-minute video tutorial. Learn essential strategies such as gradual implementation, confidence building, testing, monitoring, and automation. Discover the importance of small, frequent changes, baseline variance detection, and avoiding Friday deployments. Delve into specific examples of Azure OS patching for security and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint implementation. Gain insights on balancing security and reliability, utilizing in-guest patching, image upgrades, and application health extensions. Understand availability principles, Azure Update Manager, and the components of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Cover critical topics like security intelligence updates, mission-critical handling, cloud-delivered protection, and the significance of backup and disaster recovery. Enhance your knowledge of safe deployment practices to ensure smooth and secure updates across your IT infrastructure.

- Introduction
- Don't change everything at once
- How to build confidence
- Testing and monitoring
- Bake time
- Automate deployments
- Small and often changes
- Baseline variance detection
- Don't deploy on Fridays
- This applies to anything
- Balance of security and reliability
- Azure OS patching for security
- In-guest patching
- Image upgrade
- Application health extension
- Availability principles
- Azure Update Manager
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Components of MDE
- Security intelligence updates
- Mission critical handling
- Cloud delivered protection
- Backup and DR
- Understand all the options of services used
- Review and close