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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the key concepts involved in CI/CD, which is a part of the Azure DevOps service from Microsoft. You learned about the basic structure of Azure Pipelines YAML and the difference between Azure Pipelines and other services currently on the market. You also learned about the fundamentals of Azure Pipelines, which will help you prepare your CI/CD pipelines for all real-world scenarios discussed later in this book. Finally, you learned how to set up agent pools, deployment groups, and self-hosted agents to prepare for the hands-on projects in the following chapters.

In the next chapter, you will apply the knowledge you’ve gained from this chapter to basic concepts and features and learn how to create a pipeline.