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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure

By : Mitesh Soni
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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

This book will teach you all about the Visual Studio Team Services and Microsoft Azure PaaS offerings that support Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and execution in the cloud with high availability, disaster recovery, and security. You will first be given a tour of all the concepts and tools that Microsoft Azure has to offer and how these can be used in situations to cultivate the DevOps culture. You’ll be taught how to use and manage Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and about the structure of the sample application used throughout the book. You will become familiar with the nitty gritty of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development with VSTS and Microsoft Azure Apps. You will not only learn how to create App service environments, but also how to compare Azure Web Apps and App Service Environments to deploy web applications in a more secure environment. Once you have completed Continuous Integration and created the Platform for application deployment, you will learn more about the final stepping stone in achieving end-to-end automation using approval-based Continuous Delivery and Deployment. You will then learn about Continuous Monitoring, using the monitoring and notification options provided by Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
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Creating a free account on VSTS


To create a free account and your first project on VSTS follow these steps:

  1. Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/.
  2. Click on the Free Account button on the main page:

Make sure to create or have a live Microsoft Outlook ID before going further.

In our case, we have a Microsoft account already, so we will use the same ID to create a free account with VSTS.

  1. Enter the e-mail ID and click on Continue:
  1. If the username exists, then it will ask for the password. Enter the password and click on Sign in:
  1. You will be presented with the Visual Studio Team Services Accounts page. In our case, we already have two accounts. For this book, we will create another account:
  1. Click on Create new account and a dialog box will be opened:
  1. Enter the name of the account and select the repository with which we will manage the code. In our case, we will select Team Foundation Version Control. This selection is per project and not account specific.

Once the project is ready, we can...