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

Technical requirements

To follow this chapter, you need to have an active Azure DevOps organization and a GitHub account. You can sign up for a GitHub account here: https://github.com/join.

Let's get this chapter's prerequisites ready. This chapter requires that you have the Parts Unlimited GitHub repository cloned to your GitHub account. You will also need an Azure DevOps project to follow the examples in this chapter. Follow these steps before moving on to the next section:

  1. Launch a browser instance and go to https://github.com/microsoft/PartsUnlimitedE2E.
  2. Click Fork, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 9.1 – GitHub repository for Parts Unlimited

  3. GitHub should prompt you to log into your account if you're not logged in already. Select the account you wish to clone the repository to.
  4. This will take a couple of minutes to complete. You should see the repository in your account upon completion.
  5. We will be using this repository...