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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

Understanding Azure Pipelines

This book will be one of your favorite books in the Microsoft DevOps world as it provides a comprehensive guide to learning all about Azure Pipelines and will allow you to become an experienced Azure DevOps engineer. An Azure DevOps engineer is an individual who is responsible for designing and implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using the Azure Pipelines service, which is a component of Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is a group of Microsoft services that help a project team achieve the project’s goal.

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the CI/CD and Azure DevOps concepts in greater detail and will learn about the advantages of using Azure Pipelines to create CI/CD pipelines for the application deployment process. More specifically, in this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • What is CI/CD?
  • Introducing Azure DevOps
  • Introducing Azure Pipelines and its components
  • Comparing Azure Pipelines with other CI/CD tools
  • Setting up agent pools
  • Creating a personal access token (PAT)
  • Setting up and updating self-host agents
  • Setting up deployment groups