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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

Downloading agents using the GitHub release API


In a big move to embrace open source, Microsoft transitioned a lot of its key projects to GitHub. By developing products in an open source and contributing back to the open source communities, Microsoft is starting to change its negative public perception. This has resulted in some very surprising partnerships and an overall growth story for Microsoft, which is reflected in its stock price going up significantly over the last couple of years.

The azure-pipelines-agent and azure-pipelines-tasks projects are also hosted on GitHub. How does this benefit you? You can see all of the product's code, see the quality and architecture of the patterns used, have visibility of the product roadmap, contribute to the product's development, and engage with the product team by raising feedback and issues through GitHub. Both experimental and long-term supported versions of the agents are released on GitHub. Based on the pace at which the product is evolving...