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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

Consuming secrets from Azure Key Vault in your release pipeline


This recipe is an extension of the previous recipe; if you haven't already read the previous recipe, I recommend that you read it first.

In the previous recipe, we saw how to keep strings, such as passwords as pipeline variables and how to mark them as secure variables so that they are not visible in the logs or to anyone else editing the pipeline once saved. While it works really well, enterprises that are deploying to the cloud would love to centrally manage and maintain these secrets in Azure Key Vault.

Note

You can read more about Azure Key Vaults here: http://bit.ly/2OAslff.

Azure DevOps Server 2019 has native support for Azure Key Vault with variable groups. With variable groups in Azure DevOps Server, we can bring secrets from Azure Key Vault.

Getting ready

As a first step, we will manually create an Azure key vault and store the SQL Admin password as a single secret.

Creating a key vault in Azure

  1. Go to portal.azure.com and then...