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

An overview of Azure DevOps and GitHub integration

GitHub and Azure DevOps go hand in hand to provide a superior software development experience for teams, enabling them to ship and release software at a faster pace with minimal effort. In many scenarios, GitHub and Azure DevOps are competitors (for example, Azure Repos versus GitHub repositories), so it is typically up to you to choose the one that fits your needs and integrate them together for a wholesome platform setup.

Azure DevOps provides various RBAC levels, native enterprise identity integration, and so on, whereas GitHub enables simple collaboration across identities (while including AD integration in its Enterprise version).

When it comes to Continuous Integration/Continuous Development, Azure DevOps is way ahead and has matured compared to its counterpart, GitHub Actions. So, overall, it depends on your use case and requirements whether you choose Azure DevOps and/or GitHub for specific components in your software...