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Azure DevOps Explained

By : Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik
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Book Image

Azure DevOps Explained

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By: Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Developing applications for the cloud involves changing development methodologies and procedures. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes are a must today, but are often difficult to implement and adopt. Azure DevOps is a Microsoft Azure cloud service that enhances your application development life cycle and enables DevOps capabilities. Starting with a comprehensive product overview, this book helps you to understand Azure DevOps and apply DevOps techniques to your development projects. You'll find out how to adopt DevOps techniques for your development processes by using built-in Azure DevOps tools. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also discover how to manage a project with the help of project management techniques such as Agile and Scrum, and then progress toward development aspects such as source code management, build pipelines, code testing and artifacts, release pipelines, and GitHub integration. As you learn how to implement DevOps practices, this book will also provide you with real-world examples and scenarios of DevOps adoption. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have learned how to adopt and implement Azure DevOps features in your real-world development processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project Management
4
Section 2: Source Code and Builds
9
Section 3: Artifacts and Deployments
12
Section 4: Advanced Features of Azure DevOps

YAML release pipelines with Azure DevOps

A recently added feature of Azure DevOps is the option to define release pipelines by using YAML (previously, this was possible only for the CI part). This is now possible by using multi-stage pipelines and with that, you can use a unified YAML experience for configuring Azure DevOps pipelines for CI, CD, and CI/CD.

Defining the release YAML pipeline can be done exactly as described in Chapter 4, Understanding Azure DevOps Pipelines. There are, however, some concepts to understand, such as environments.

Environments are a group of resources targeted by a pipeline – for example, Azure Web Apps, virtual machines, or Kubernetes clusters. You can use environments to group resources by scope – for example, you can create an environment called development with your development resources and an environment called production with the production resources. Environments can be created by going to the Environments section under Pipelines...