This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2017, held in Beijing, China June 30 - July 1, 2017. The 26 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision and pattern recognition; big data mining, computer graphics and VR; as well as image technology applications

Azure Infrastructure as Code is a comprehensive guide to seamlessly managing your application infrastructure with Azure's native IaC tools. The book is aimed at supporting collaboration between operations professionals and software developers, to help speed up and improve the quality of software delivery. After you master the basics, you'll dive into niche and advanced topics such as testing, reusing templates between multiple teams, and how you can define policy as code. Discover cutting-edge Deployment Stacks, and how they can help you clean up unused resources, group resources in logical containers to help visualize potential changes, and build starting plateaus for other teams to work on. About the Technology Infrastructure as code does away with time-consuming manual tasks-no more detailed scripts for creating the correct database or virtual machine. Instead, Azure's native IaC tools create infrastructure from a declarative specification in JSON (ARM) or a domain-specific language (Bicep). They empower users to create or recreate complete infrastructures with just a line of code, as well as take advantage of automation tools like Github Actions or Azure Pipelines.

Written by Microsoft MVPs and Azure experts, this comprehensive guide comes with self-study exercises to help you understand the concepts better and move closer to becoming a skilled Azure DevOps engineer Key Features Explore a step-by-step approach to designing and creating a successful DevOps environment Understand how to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines on Azure Integrate and implement security, compliance, containers, and databases in your DevOps strategies Book DescriptionThe AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification helps DevOps engineers and administrators get to grips with practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments using Azure DevOps Services. This new edition is updated with advanced topics such as site reliability engineering (SRE), continuous improvement, and planning your cloud transformation journey. The book begins with the basics of CI/CD and automated deployments, and then moves ahead to show you how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. As you make progress, you'll explore fitting security and compliance with DevOps and find out how to instrument applications and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. This book will also help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you'll discover quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices and learn to create your own Azure DevOps organization. By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity. What you will learn Get acquainted with Azure DevOps Services and DevOps practices Discover how to efficiently implement CI/CD processes Build and deploy a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing on Azure Integrate security and compliance in pipelines Understand and implement Azure Container Services Effectively close the loop from production back to development Apply continuous improvement strategies to deliver innovation at scale Who this book is forThe book is for anyone looking to prepare for the AZ-400 certification exam. Software developers, application developers, and IT professionals who want to implement DevOps practices for the Azure cloud will also find this book helpful. Familiarity with Azure DevOps basics, software development, and development practices is recommended but not necessary.

A comprehensive guide to becoming a skilled Azure DevOps engineer Key Features Explore a step-by-step approach to designing and creating a successful DevOps environment Understand how to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines on Azure Integrate and implement security, compliance, containers, and databases in your DevOps strategies Book DescriptionImplementing Azure DevOps Solutions helps DevOps engineers and administrators to leverage Azure DevOps Services to master practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments. This book starts with the basics of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployments. You will then learn how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. Next, you will delve into fitting security and compliance with DevOps. As you advance, you will explore how to instrument applications, and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. The latter part of this book will help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you will understand how to create your own Azure DevOps organization, along with covering quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge you need to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity. What you will learn Get acquainted with Azure DevOps Services and DevOps practices Implement CI/CD processes Build and deploy a CI/CD pipeline with automated testing on Azure Integrate security and compliance in pipelines Understand and implement Azure Container Services Become well versed in closing the loop from production back to development Who this book is forThis DevOps book is for software developers and operations specialists interested in implementing DevOps practices for the Azure cloud. Application developers and IT professionals with some experience in software development and development practices will also find this book useful. Some familiarity with Azure DevOps basics is an added advantage.