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Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

By : Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag
Book Image

Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions

By: Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag

Overview of this book

Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions helps DevOps engineers and administrators to leverage Azure DevOps Services to master practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments. This book starts with the basics of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated deployments. You will then learn how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. Next, you will delve into fitting security and compliance with DevOps. As you advance, you will explore how to instrument applications, and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. The latter part of this book will help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you will understand how to create your own Azure DevOps organization, along with covering quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the knowledge you need to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Continuous Delivery
6
Section 2: Expanding your DevOps Pipeline
12
Section 3: Closing the Loop
15
Section 4: Advanced Topics

Automating release notes

After automating the build, releasing an application, and working on increasing the flow of value to end users, many developers find that it becomes harder and harder to keep documentation and release notes up to date. As the amount of releases increases, this becomes more and more work, and eventually, the team will fall behind or even give up completely.

To combat this, it is possible to automate the creation and publication of release notes. One way to do this is by using the Azure DevOps Release Notes Generator. The generator is an Azure Functions application that is available on GitHub. To use the Release Notes Generator, the following needs to be done:

  1. Download or clone the function code from GitHub.
  2. Create an Azure App Service Plan, function app, and storage account in Azure.
  3. Create a new blob container in the storage account called releases.
  4. Compile...