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

Understanding SCM

Source control (or version control) is a software practice used to track and manage changes in source code. This is an extremely important practice because it permits to maintain a single source of code across different developers and helps with collaborating on a single software project (where different developers works on the same code base).

SCM is an essential practice in any DevOps process. To adopt a source control policy, you should do the following:

  • Select a source control management system to adopt (for example, install Git on a server or use a cloud-based SCM such as Azure DevOps Repos or GitHub)
  • Store your code base in a repository managed by your source control management system
  • Clone the repository locally for development by taking the latest code version (pull) stored in the central repository
  • Commit and push your released code to the central repository
  • Use different copies of the repository for developing in a parallel way...