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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

Working with universal packages

The previous sections have all concentered on using Azure Artifacts as a means for redistributing application packages such as libraries or other shared components. However, there is also another important use of Azure Artifacts, which is using a feed for storing any type of binary package. These are called universal packages.

Since a universal packages feed can be used to store any type of package, this makes it a good choice for storing build artifacts if you are working with more than one CI/CD tool. In this case, you can use universal packages for storing and serving your build artifacts to and from whichever tool you are using at that time. This can be particularly useful since the built-in storage for classic build and release pipelines cannot be accessed by other tools.

To use universal packages for staging your build artifacts in such a...