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

Overview of Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is a cloud service offered by the Azure platform that allows you to automate the building, testing, and releasing phases of your development life cycle (CI/CD). Azure Pipelines works with any language or platform, it's integrated in Azure DevOps, and you can build your code on Windows, Linux, or macOS machines.

Azure Pipelines is free for public projects, while for private projects, you have up to 1,800 minutes' (30 hours) worth of pipelines for free each month. More information about pricing can be found here:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/

Some important feature of Azure Pipelines can be summarized as follows:

  • It's platform and language independent, which means you can build code on every platform using the code base you want.
  • It can be integrated with different types of repositories (Azure Repos, GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, BitBucket, and so on).
  • Lots...