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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
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Part 3:CI/CD for Real-World Scenarios
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Chapter 12: Navigating Common Pitfalls and Future Trends in Azure Pipelines

Managing global variables and secret files

Most projects will use the same value for creating release pipelines, such as the name of the Azure service connection. This section will teach you how to create the variable group and secret files. These resources are essential for sharing common values across multiple pipelines, and include, for instance, a username and password for deploying applications to Microsoft Azure.

Creating a variable group library

You need to create a global variable to link to all pipelines if that pipeline needs to use an Azure service connection. Using variable groups reduces the chances of making mistakes and duplicating values across many pipelines. When you need to update the values, you can do so in a single centralized location instead of throughout all pipelines.

You can follow these steps when you need to create variables you wish to share for all pipelines:

  1. Navigate to your project and click on Pipelines | Library | Variable group:
  2. ...