DevOps & automation
CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation practices
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Official resources
CI/CD platforms
- Azure DevOps Services - Microsoft’s platform (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts)
- GitHub Actions - workflow automation (marketplace)
- GitHub Secret Protection + Code Security - the unbundled successors to GitHub Advanced Security
Version control
- Semantic Versioning
- Git Flow (don’t follow this too rigidly!)
- GitHub Skills - interactive tutorials
- Conventional Commits
- Pro Git book
Monitoring and observability
- OpenTelemetry
- App Insights - Azure APM
- Sentry - error tracking and performance monitoring
- New Relic - observability platform
- Raygun - crash reporting and APM
- PostHog - open-source product analytics
- Prometheus - monitoring and alerting
- Grafana - observability dashboards
Community resources and reading
- The Phoenix Project
- The DevOps Handbook
- Site Reliability Engineering books
- Awesome DevOps
- DevOps subreddit
- /r/sysadmin + WinAdmins discord
- /r/homelab + discord
See also: development resources for Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, and Reading for industry news.
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