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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

Chapter 6. Continuous Deployments

Continuous Deployment is the practice of teams to continuously deploy tested and working software to production. The release pipeline of Azure DevOps Server is just an orchestrator of the activities you do on an environment to get your software deployed and running. Another key technique of continuous deployments is the consistency of deployment steps - meaning you follow the same deployment steps across all your deployment environments. The advantage is repeatability, reliability  - thus improving your overall delivery so that you release software to production sooner and consistently.

In this chapter, we will see different ways to deploy various types of resources using continuous deployment strategy. Not only will we see how to deploy applications, but will also see how to provision infrastructure so that we eventually achieve repeatable and reliable deployments of our software.

We will cover the following recipes: 

  • Deploying the database to Azure SQL using...