Robby Millsap joins David Blank-Edelman to discuss the how the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Operational Excellence Pillar can help you reduce toil and friction in your release cycle. Resources • Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework https://aka.ms/azenable/56/04 • Overview of the Operational Excellence pillar https://aka.ms/azenable/56/01 • Operational Excellence | Learn Module https://aka.ms/azenable/56/03 • Azure Well-Architected Review https://aka.ms/azenable/56/02 • Read Robby's blog https://aka.ms/azenable/56/05 • Explore the Azure Landing Zones https://aka.ms/azenable/58/01 Related Episodes • Achieve Operational Excellence With Azure Well-Architected Framework https://aka.ms/azenable/56 • Start optimizing your Azure costs https://aka.ms/azenable/wa-costop1 To watch more episodes in the Well-Architected Series, check out our playlist: https://aka.ms/azenable/yt/wa-playlist Explore more cloud enablement resources! https://www.azure.com/enablement 0:00 Introduction 2:22 How can Operational Excellence address some of the many problems we're having in our release cycle? 2:10 How can we reduce toil? 2:55 How can we optimize our release process? 3:34 How can automation and just-in-time permissions help us reduce toil? 4:19 What are some of the other benefits of automation? 5:14 What are some other ways we can reduce friction in our deployments? 6:23 What are some methods for reducing configuration drift? 7:30 Apart from unit tests, what other types of tests should we be running? 8:09 How can we decrease unexpected faults once we deploy? 8:54 What's the best way to avoid those "down for maintenance" screens when we're deploying new code? 9:50 How can I avoid having to replicate my entire production environment to facilitate blue and green deployments? 10:15 Where can I go to learn more about the Well-Architected Framework? #Azure #AzureEnablementShow #WellArchitected