DevOps Tutorials

Welcome to the DevOps section of our tutorials. Here you'll find resources to help you understand and implement DevOps practices with Microsoft technologies.

What is DevOps? An Overview

Learn the fundamental principles, culture, and benefits of adopting DevOps in your software development lifecycle.

Introduction Culture Principles

CI/CD Pipelines with Azure DevOps

A hands-on guide to setting up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps Services.

Azure DevOps CI/CD Automation Pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with ARM Templates

Discover how to manage your cloud infrastructure using code with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.

IaC Azure ARM Templates Provisioning

Monitoring and Logging with Azure Monitor

Understand how to effectively monitor your applications and infrastructure, collect logs, and gain insights using Azure Monitor.

Monitoring Logging Azure Monitor Observability

Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes on Azure

Explore containerization basics and learn to deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Docker Kubernetes AKS Containers

Key Concepts in DevOps

DevOps is a combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than organizations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. Some core concepts include:

Continuous Integration (CI): Frequently merging code changes into a central repository, followed by automated builds and tests.
Continuous Delivery (CD): Extending CI by automatically deploying all code changes to a testing and/or production environment after the build stage.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Managing and provisioning infrastructure through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.
Monitoring and Logging: Collecting and analyzing telemetry data from applications and infrastructure to ensure performance and identify issues.
Collaboration: Fostering a culture of communication and shared responsibility between development and operations teams.

Getting Started with Your First Pipeline

Let's set up a basic CI/CD pipeline. You'll need an Azure DevOps account and a GitHub repository.

Create a new project in Azure DevOps.
Navigate to Pipelines -> Pipelines and click "Create Pipeline".
Choose your code repository (e.g., GitHub).
Select a starter pipeline template, such as "ASP.NET Core".
Review and commit the generated azure-pipelines.yml file.

This will create a basic pipeline that builds your application whenever code is pushed to the repository. You can then extend this by adding stages for testing and deployment.

Tools and Technologies

Microsoft's ecosystem offers a robust set of tools for DevOps, including:

Azure DevOps: A comprehensive suite for version control, CI/CD, work item tracking, and more.
GitHub Actions: For automating workflows directly within your GitHub repositories.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates / Bicep: For Infrastructure as Code.
Azure Monitor: For application and infrastructure monitoring.
Docker: For containerization.
Kubernetes (AKS): For orchestrating containers.