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

Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a container-based application

In this example, we'll take a container-based application and build an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline. We'll take a Python and Redis-based sample application for the purpose of this demonstration.

In this example, we'll be using various Azure resources in the overall solution architecture. This includes the following:

  • Azure DevOps: CI/CD pipeline
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): For hosting the containers
  • Azure Container Registry (ACR): Container image storage and management

Introduction to the sample app

In this section, we'll be using a sample application called Azure Voting App. It is a standard multi-container-based application that uses the following components:

  • The Azure Voting App backend: This will be running on Redis.
  • The Azure Voting App frontend: Web application built with Python.

You can review the application code here: https://github.com/Azure...