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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

Creating an artifact feed with Azure Artifacts

In this demo, we are going to create an artifact feed in Azure Artifacts. Packages are stored in feeds, which are basically organizational constructs that allow us to group packages and manage their permissions. Every package type (NuGet, npm, Maven, Python, and Universal) can be stored in a single feed.

For this demonstration, we are going to use our PartsUnlimited sample project again and add a new artifact feed to the project. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a web browser and navigate to https://dev.azure.com/.
  2. Log in with your Microsoft account and from the left menu, select Artifacts. Then, click the + Create Feed button.
  3. In the Create new feed dialog box, add the following values (make sure that Upstream sources is disabled; we are not going to use packages from remote feeds in this chapter):

    Figure 7.1 – Creating a new feed

  4. Click the Create button.

With that, we have created a new...