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Operational Excellence quick links

Apply operational excellence guidance to your workload to ensure workload quality through standardized processes and team cohesion.

Learn key points

Quickstart

  • Design principles
  • Checklist
  • Tradeoffs

Training

  • Operational Excellence

video

  • Achieve Operational Excellence

Review design principles

Concept

  • Embrace fusion and DevOps culture
  • Establish development standards
  • Evolve operations with observability
  • Deploy with confidence
  • Automate for efficiency
  • Adopt safe deployment practices

Start with the fundamentals

How-To Guide

  • Start with a fusion culture
  • Formalize operational tasks
  • Formalize software development and management
  • Standardize tools and processes
  • Follow continuous integration practices
  • Use safe deployment practices

Use automation

How-To Guide

  • Automate pragmatically
  • Design for automation

Ship safely and support what you ship

How-To Guide

  • Design for observability
  • Design a reliable workload supply chain
  • Handle deployment failures
  • Design an emergency response strategy

Explore related resources

Reference

  • DevOps resource center
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub
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