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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli
Book Image

Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli

Overview of this book

Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a comprehensive on-premise DevOps toolset with a rich ecosystem of open source plugins. This book will help you learn how to effectively use the different Azure DevOps services. You will start by building high-quality scalable software targeting .NET, .NET Core and Node.js applications. Next, you will learn techniques that will help you to set up end-to-end traceability of your code changes, from design through to release. Whether you are deploying software on-premise or in the cloud in App Service, Functions, or Azure VMs, this book will help you learn release management techniques to reduce failures. As you progress, you will be able to secure application configuration by using Azure Key Vault. You will also understand how to create and release extensions to the Azure DevOps marketplace and reach the million-strong developer ecosystem for feedback. Later, the working extension samples will even allow you to iterate changes in your extensions easily and release updates to the marketplace quickly. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to break down the invisible silos between your software development teams, and transform them into a modern cross-functional software development team.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Build and Release Agents

The build system in Azure DevOps Server known as Azure Pipelines is an open source, cross-platform, extensible, task-based execution system with a rich web interface that allows us to author, queue, and monitor builds. The new JSON-based build system was first introduced in TFS 2015, and it has since been rewritten for the .NET Core CLR as one code base in C#. The modern platform continues to evolve through the open source ecosystem, with new features and enhancements rolling out every other week. The build system is set to evolve further with the new multi-phase builds and a build-definition-as-code functionality that was introduced through YAML-based builds in Azure DevOps. These features have been recently introduced into Azure DevOps Server with the update 1 of Azure DevOps server 2019. In the following screenshot you can see the evolution of the build system over the last 10 years:

 

The build system allows you to install multiple agents on a host....