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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli
Book Image

Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli

Overview of this book

Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a comprehensive on-premise DevOps toolset with a rich ecosystem of open source plugins. This book will help you learn how to effectively use the different Azure DevOps services. You will start by building high-quality scalable software targeting .NET, .NET Core and Node.js applications. Next, you will learn techniques that will help you to set up end-to-end traceability of your code changes, from design through to release. Whether you are deploying software on-premise or in the cloud in App Service, Functions, or Azure VMs, this book will help you learn release management techniques to reduce failures. As you progress, you will be able to secure application configuration by using Azure Key Vault. You will also understand how to create and release extensions to the Azure DevOps marketplace and reach the million-strong developer ecosystem for feedback. Later, the working extension samples will even allow you to iterate changes in your extensions easily and release updates to the marketplace quickly. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to break down the invisible silos between your software development teams, and transform them into a modern cross-functional software development team.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Agent capabilities and build demands for special builds 


The build and test execution of an application depends on the specific version of the framework. For example, an application may have a component that depends on DotNetCore 1.0 and another component may depend on DotNetCore 2.0. The build system gives you the ability to define demands in a build definition and specify capabilities in the agent queues. This creates a build that you can route to an agent queue by simply mapping the demand to the capabilities. The framework leverages this capability internally; during the agent setup, the agent collects a list of software and frameworks installed on the host machine. These can be seen in the agent queue or Agent pools page under the Capabilities tab. In this recipe, we'll learn how to add custom capabilities in the agent queues and demand that in-build definitions target specific agent queues.   

Getting ready

To configure the agent capabilities, you need to be part of the build administrator...