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

Introducing Azure Artifacts

It is likely that every developer has used a third-party or open source package in their code to add extra functionalities and speed up the development process of their application. Using popular, pre-built components that have been used and tested by the community will help you get things done more easily.

Functionalities, scripts, and code that have been built by various teams in your organization are often reused by other teams and in different software development projects. These different artifacts can be moved into a library or package so that others can benefit from this.

There are different ways to build and host these packages. For instance, you can use NuGet for hosting and managing packages for the Microsoft Development platform or npm for JavaScript packages, Maven for Java, and more. Azure Artifacts offers features so that you can share and reuse packages easily. In Azure Artifacts, packages are stored in feeds. A feed is a container...