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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

Deploying to Kubernetes with Azure DevOps

We have seen a lot of options for deploying and configuring the Kubernetes cluster via the command line. When working with DevOps, however, changes need to be applied in a continuous way.

For this, there is the Kubernetes manifest task within Azure DevOps, which contains a lot of functionalities to manage a Kubernetes cluster:

task: KubernetesManifest@0
inputs:
action: 'deploy'
kubernetesServiceConnection: '[service connection name]'
manifests: '[path to your deployment file]'
containers: 'msftazuredevops.azurecr.io/azuredevops:$(Build.BuildID)'

In the preceding example, the following is configured:

  • action: The kind of action to we want to perform. In this example, the deploy action is used because we want to deploy/apply a deployment file.
  • kubernetesServiceConnection: The service connection...