Books that cover devops and ci/cd
Ultra Transcenders AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Know which branch policy, pipeline feature or deployment pattern fits the delivery requirement, in GitHub or Azure DevOps, and why.
Source control, pipelines, deployments, infrastructure as code and DevSecOps with GitHub and Azure DevOps.
Sections from the books on devops and ci/cd, free to read:
How trunk-based development, GitHub Flow, feature branches, release branches and forks differ, and which fits a team's release cadence. AZ-400
How the two CI/CD platforms compare on hosting, YAML, integrations and licensing, and when to combine them. AZ-400
Which agent or runner option fits private network access, custom software, scale and maintenance requirements. AZ-400
How each release pattern limits risk, what it costs and how traffic or users move to the new version. AZ-400
How @Local, @Prerelease and @Release views work, how promotion moves packages through them and who consumes each view. AZ-400
When a pipeline should use a service principal, a system-assigned or a user-assigned managed identity, and the trade-offs of each. AZ-400
The four DORA metrics, where to get the data in Azure DevOps and GitHub, and which metrics suit planning, development, testing, security, delivery and operations. AZ-400
How Git LFS pointer files and storage work in Azure Repos and GitHub, the limits on each platform and what pipelines need to fetch LFS content. AZ-400
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Know which branch policy, pipeline feature or deployment pattern fits the delivery requirement, in GitHub or Azure DevOps, and why.