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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

Producing the package using a build pipeline

Now that we have created our feed, we are going to create a build pipeline that automatically creates a package during the build of the project. For this example, you can use the sample project provided in this book's GitHub repository. This sample project consists of all the models from the PartsUnlimited project. We are going to add all the models to a package and distribute it from Artifacts. This way, you can easily share the data model across different projects.

The first step is to import the GitHub repository into the PartsUnlimited organization in Azure DevOps.

Adding the sample project to the PartsUnlimited repository

To add the sample models project to the PartsUnlimited repository, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the PartsUnlimited project in Azure DevOps and go to Repos > Files.
  2. Select Import repository from the PartsUnlimited dropdown:

    Figure 7.2 – Importing a repository

  3. Enter...