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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
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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

Future trends

Azure DevOps is an ever-evolving product, and as such, new features and capabilities are introduced often, typically because of the Microsoft product team looking to improve the product, or because of requests from users.

Let’s look at some of the most recent features related to Azure Pipelines:

  • Improvements in the authoring experience for Azure Pipelines tasks to support newer versions of Node.js and ease the transition to newer versions of it, allowing you and any other contributors in the community to create your own extensions.
  • GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is a new security suite of tools aimed at increasing DevSecOps practices. Among its features, it includes the ability to scan your code to prevent common vulnerability scenarios, using specialized tasks that detect scenarios such as cross-site scripting, SQL or XML injection attacks, and many more common issues that developers can often overlook. This is available for many programming...