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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)
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Part 1:Getting Started with Azure Pipelines
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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

Best practices

The importance of following best practices becomes evident when you encounter issues during a pipeline’s life cycle. They will enable your team to not only maintain pipelines with ease but also swiftly identify and address any problems that may arise.

Here are some practices that will help your team find any issues easily:

  • Use YAML syntax rather than the classic version. YAML can be version-controlled in repositories such as Azure Repos, GitHub, and Bitbucket, which can help you track changes in the YAML file and introduce changes gradually when combined with a branching strategy. Even better, if you want to enforce this, you can disable the creation of classic build pipelines at the organization or project settings level.
  • Separate common tasks into separate YAML files that can be referenced from your main template when you have many tasks repeated throughout stages. This makes it easier to maintain or change the behavior of a pipeline in large...