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

Chapter 3: Source Control Management with Azure DevOps

Source control management (SCM) is a vital part of every company that develops software professionally, but also for every developer that wants to have a safe way to store and manage their code.

When working in teams, it's absolutely necessary to have a safe central repository where all your code is stored. It's also necessary to have a system that guarantees that the code is safely shared between developers and that every modification is inspected and merged without raising conflicts.

In this chapter, we'll learn how Azure DevOps can help with managing source code professionally and securely. In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding source control management
  • Branching strategies overview
  • Handling source control with Azure DevOps and Repos
  • How to work with commits, pushes, and branches
  • Working with pull requests
  • Handling a pull request
  • How to tag...