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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 a release pipeline with Azure DevOps

The final goal for implementing a complete CI/CD process with DevOps is to automate the deployment of your software to a final environment (for example, the final customer), and to achieve this goal, you need to create a release pipeline.

A release pipeline takes the build artifacts (the result of your build process) and deploys those artifacts to one or more final environments.

To create our first release pipeline, we'll use the PartsUnlimited web application project previously deployed on Azure DevOps:

  1. To create a release pipeline with Azure DevOps, click on Pipelines on the left menu, select Releases, and then click on New release pipeline:

    Figure 8.2 – Creating a new release pipeline

  2. In the Select a template list that appears on the right, you have a set of available templates for creating releases for different types of applications and platforms. For our application, select Azure App Service deployment...