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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

Creating a release pipeline using YAML

This section will teach you how to create a release pipeline using YAML. You will also learn how to create stages, jobs, and tasks in YAML format. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Edit the existing pipeline by clicking on the ellipses () next to it and then click on Edit pipeline:

Figure 4.14 – Editing an existing pipeline

Figure 4.14 – Editing an existing pipeline

  1. Replace all contents of the existing azure-pipelines.yml file, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 4.15 – Advanced pipeline with two stages

Figure 4.15 – Advanced pipeline with two stages

There are two stages, as shown in the preceding screenshot:

  • The first stage will display Build stage job
  • The second stage will display Release stage

This scenario displays build and release stages suitable for building the application (the Build stage) and deploying the application (the Release stage). It is easy to find errors or issues because if the build...