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
• Operational excellence patterns
• Azure Well-Architected Review assessment

Training

• Operational excellence

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• Achieve Operational Excellence

Review design principles

Concept

• Embrace 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 DevOps culture
• Formalize operational tasks
• Formalize software development and management
• Standardize tools and processes
• Use safe deployment practices (SPD)

Use automation

How-To Guide

• Automate pragmatically
• Design for automation

Ship safely and support what you ship

How-To Guide

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

Explore related resources

Reference

• Azure Advisor: Operational excellence recommendations
• DevOps resource center
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub
• Azure Resource Manager
• Terraform on Azure