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Implementing CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines

By : Piti Champeethong, Roberto Mardeni
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Book Image

Implementing CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines

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By: Piti Champeethong, Roberto Mardeni

Overview of this book

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are ubiquitous concepts in modern development. Azure Pipelines is one of the most popular services that you can utilize for CI/CD, and this book shows you how it works by taking you through the process of building and automating CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines and YAML, simplifying integration with Azure resources and reducing human error. You’ll begin by getting an overview of Azure Pipelines and why you should use it. Next, the book helps you get to grips with build and release pipelines, and then builds upon this by introducing the extensive power of YAML syntax, which you can use to implement and configure any task you can think of. As you advance, you’ll discover how to integrate Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, and perform code analysis with SonarQube. In the concluding chapters, you’ll delve into real-life scenarios and hands-on implementation tasks with Microsoft Azure services, AWS, and cross-mobile application with Flutter, Google Firebase, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and build CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines with consummate ease, write code using YAML, and configure any task that comes to mind.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with Azure Pipelines
6
Part 2:Azure Pipelines in Action
11
Part 3:CI/CD for Real-World Scenarios
15
Chapter 12: Navigating Common Pitfalls and Future Trends in Azure Pipelines

Managing environments

In this section, you will learn about how to create environments and deploy to them.

Configuring environments

In this section, you will define the environments in Azure Pipelines, which will be logical representations of the deployment targets. This will allow us to add approval and checks to control how the pipeline advances from one stage to the next:

  1. You start by clicking on the Environments option under Pipelines in the main menu on the left, as follows:
Figure 9.7 – Accessing the Environments option in the menu

Figure 9.7 – Accessing the Environments option in the menu

  1. If you have no environments, you will see a screen like the following; click on Create environment:
Figure 9.8 – Creating your first environment

Figure 9.8 – Creating your first environment

Otherwise, you will see a New environment option in the top-right part of the screen above your existing environments.

  1. Once the pop-up screen shows up to create the new environment, enter test for Name...