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