Book Image

Azure DevOps Explained

By : Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik
Book Image

Azure DevOps Explained

By: Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Developing applications for the cloud involves changing development methodologies and procedures. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes are a must today, but are often difficult to implement and adopt. Azure DevOps is a Microsoft Azure cloud service that enhances your application development life cycle and enables DevOps capabilities. Starting with a comprehensive product overview, this book helps you to understand Azure DevOps and apply DevOps techniques to your development projects. You'll find out how to adopt DevOps techniques for your development processes by using built-in Azure DevOps tools. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also discover how to manage a project with the help of project management techniques such as Agile and Scrum, and then progress toward development aspects such as source code management, build pipelines, code testing and artifacts, release pipelines, and GitHub integration. As you learn how to implement DevOps practices, this book will also provide you with real-world examples and scenarios of DevOps adoption. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have learned how to adopt and implement Azure DevOps features in your real-world development processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project Management
4
Section 2: Source Code and Builds
9
Section 3: Artifacts and Deployments
12
Section 4: Advanced Features of Azure DevOps

Chapter 7: Using Artifacts with Azure DevOps

In the previous chapter, we covered how to host build agents in Azure Pipelines. In this chapter, we are going to cover how to use artifacts with Azure DevOps. We will begin by explaining what artifacts are. Then, we will look at how to create them in Azure DevOps, as well as how to produce the artifact package from a built pipeline. Next, we are going to cover how to deploy the feed using a release pipeline. Then, we are going to cover how to set the feed permissions and how to consume the package in Visual Studio. Finally, we are going to cover how to scan for package vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Introducing Azure Artifacts
  • Creating an artifact feed with Azure Artifacts
  • Producing the package using a build pipeline
  • Publishing the package to the feed from a build pipeline
  • Configuring the feed permissions from the feed settings
  • Consuming the package...