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

Integrating Azure Boards with GitHub

Azure Boards is the best place to plan and track your work items. Integrating Azure Boards with GitHub allows you to keep using Azure Boards as your planning and managing platform while you continue using GitHub as your source control management platform.

By integrating Azure Boards with GitHub, you can link objects from Azure Boards to GitHub. A few examples are as follows:

  • Work item and Git commit/issue/pull request linking means you can link your work items to the corresponding work being done in GitHub.
  • You can update your work item's status from GitHub itself.
  • Overall, integration allows us to track and link the deliverable across the two platforms easily.

Now, let's set up our Azure Boards integration.

Setting up Azure Boards and GitHub integration

Azure Boards is another extension available in GitHub Marketplace. You can configure the integration from both Azure DevOps and GitHub Marketplace.

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