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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

Explaining the solution architecture

The following is a solution diagram that depicts how, in an Azure Pipelines workflow, to build your Flutter code and deploy it to Google Firebase, the Google Play Console, and Apple Store Connect:

Figure 11.1 – Solution diagram

Figure 11.1 – Solution diagram

We will create three pipelines for Flutter in development and production environments, as shown in the preceding diagram, because mobile applications need to be tested on internal user or customer environments, such as Google Firebase, before deploying to production in the Google and Apple stores. The solution diagram depicts the following steps:

  1. Developers develop and test mobile applications using Flutter on their machines and push Flutter code to Azure Repos.
  2. After the Flutter code is uploaded to Azure Repos, Azure Repos will trigger a pipeline to build the Flutter code and deploy the Flutter applications to Google Firebase.
  3. After testing the Flutter applications on...