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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Arora, Tarun Arora, Shigihalli

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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook

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By: Arora, Tarun Arora, Shigihalli

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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.

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Planning and Tracking Work

Creating a team project for an Agile team

Importing requirements from Excel

Getting social with work items

Portfolio backlog hierarchies and decomposing work

Configuring and customizing backlog boards

Preparing and planning a sprint

Visualizing progress in a sprint

Delivery plans to track multiple teams

Dashboards for planning and tracking work

Source Control Management

Migrating from TFVC to Git with code history

Accessing Azure DevOps Git repositories using SSH

Importing a Git repository from GitHub into Azure DevOps Server

Basic Git operations using Visual Studio Code

Pull request for code review using branch policies

Using Git hooks with Azure DevOps Server

Managing and storing large files in git

Git branching model for continuous delivery

Configuring code search as a search engine

Using Git forks and sync changes with upstream PR

Build and Release Agents

Unattended configuration of build agents using PowerShell

Downloading agents using the GitHub release API

Configuring deployment groups

Configuring the agent to use a proxy

Analyzing build usage data

Automating agent pool maintenance

Configuring build and release retention policies

Agent capabilities and build demands for special builds

Managing agent permissions using role-based access

Continuous Integration and Build Automation

Configuring one build definition for all branches of a Git repository

Reflecting the branch quality in the build name

Using web deploy to create a package in an ASP.NET build pipeline

Organizing build output into separate folders

Configuring assembly version info in build pipelines

Setting up a build pipeline for a .NET core application

Setting up build pipeline for a Node.js application

Setting up a build pipeline for your database projects

Integrating SonarQube in build pipelines to manage technical debt

Continuous Testing

Running NUnit tests using Azure Pipelines

Using feature flags to test in production

Distributing multi-configuration tests against agents

Configuring parallel execution of tests using Azure Pipelines

Running SpecFlow tests using Azure Pipelines

Analyzing test execution results from Runs view

Exporting test artifacts and test results from Test Hub

Charting testing status on the dashboard in team portal

Continuous Deployments

Deploying the database to Azure SQL using the release pipeline

Consuming secrets from Azure Key Vault in your release pipeline

Deploying the .NET Core web application to the Azure App Service

Deploying an Azure Function to Azure

Publishing secrets to Azure Key Vault

Deploying a static website on Azure Storage

Deploying an Azure Virtual Machine to Azure Dev Test Lab (DTL)

Azure Artifacts and Dependency Management

Publishing a NuGet package to Artifacts

Consuming a NuGet package in Visual Studio from the Artifacts feed

Testing a NuGet package using Artifact views

Publishing NPM packages to Artifacts

Consuming NPM package from the Artifacts feed

Scanning for vulnerabilities in your package using WhiteSource

Azure DevOps Extensions

Creating the VS Marketplace publisher

Creating a simple task to clean folders

Creating a UI extension

Creating a service connection extension to connect to GitLab

Creating a pipeline task to consume a custom service connection

Publishing extensions to the marketplace

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