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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

An overview of release pipelines

Release pipelines permit you to implement the continuous delivery phase of a software life cycle. With a release pipeline, you can automate the process of testing and deliver your solutions (committed code) to the final environments or directly to the customer's site (continuous delivery and continuous deployment).

With continuous delivery, you deliver code to a certain environment for testing or quality control, while continuous deployment is the phase where you release code to a final production environment.

A release pipeline can be triggered manually (you decide when you want to deploy your code) or it can be triggered according to events such as a code commit on the master branch, after the completion of a stage (for example, the production testing stage), or according to a schedule.

A release pipeline is normally connected to an artifact store (a deployable component for an application and output of a build). An artifact store contains...