DevOps Practices for Azure Infrastructure - Continuous Operations & Continuous Monitoring

This series on implementing DevOps practices for Azure infrastructure is nearing its conclusion. The last part remaining is completing the operations side of the loop.

This brings focus to the last two practices on our list:

• Continuous Planning
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Testing
• Continuous Operations
• Continuous Monitoring

Continuous Operations & Continuous Monitoring

The Continuous Operations and Continuous Monitoring practices are closely tied together. They jointly serve the goal of ensuring the overall reliability, resiliency, and security of solutions. The majority of capabilities supporting that goal are within the scope of Continuous Operations practice and cover aspects like compliance enforcement, cost management, proactive maintenance, security posture management, and intelligence-driven responses to operational and security events. That said, most of those capabilities can't be achieved without capabilities coming from Continuous Monitoring practice. There can be no cost management without cost tracking. There is no way to have proactive maintenance