Is your Azure environment ready to recover itself before customers notice a glitch-while releasing code faster than ever?
Automate Cloud Ops with Microsoft is a practical handbook for Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps teams, and cloud architects who want to move beyond scripts and dashboards to true agent-driven operations. Through clear explanations and copy-paste-ready examples, you'll learn how Microsoft's AI agents, Infrastructure as Code, and intelligent pipelines combine to create resilient, self-managing platforms that slash downtime, accelerate delivery, and keep costs predictable.
What sets this book apart?
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Foundations of Modern SRE & Cloud Infrastructure - Measure reliability with SLOs and error budgets that map directly to Azure Monitor.
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Building Blocks of Agentic Automation - Plug Azure SRE Agent, GitHub Copilot, and Foundry into real workloads for autonomous remediation.
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IaC & CI/CD Pipelines - Ship reliable releases with Bicep, Terraform, and agent-powered GitHub Actions that test, deploy, and roll back automatically.
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Proactive Monitoring & Self-Healing - Design policies that detect anomalies, run root-cause analysis, and restart services in seconds.
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Incident Response & Auto-Remediation - Orchestrate intelligent playbooks that connect PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, and Copilot for seamless recovery.
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Security, Compliance & Cost Optimization - Enforce Zero-Trust, generate audit trails, and let AI agents shut down waste before the bill arrives.
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Extending & Orchestrating Agents - Build custom agents, link third-party APIs, and coordinate multi-cloud workflows at enterprise scale.
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Future Directions - Prepare for autonomous infrastructure, evolving SRE roles, and the next wave of edge and hybrid cloud automation.
Ready to move from firefighting to foresight? Pick up Automate Cloud Ops with Microsoft today and equip your team with the agentic tools, proven patterns, and hands-on labs that turn Azure into a self-healing, high-velocity cloud engine.
