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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

Publishing packages

Now that you know how to create and manage feeds, it is time to learn how to publish packages to them. If you have experience of publishing packages to public feeds, you will see that publishing to Azure Artifacts works in precisely the same way. There are two ways in which you can publish packages to a feed:

  • Manually from your own computer
  • By using Azure Pipelines

Both options are explored in the following sections.

Uploading packages by hand

To upload packages by hand, the following steps need to be performed:

  1. First, you will have to retrieve the URL to your feed. To do this, click on Connect to feed for any of your feeds, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. In the list on the left, select the...