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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

Creating a build pipeline with Azure DevOps

Having a build pipeline in place is a fundamental step if you want to implement continuous integration for your code (having your code automatically built and tested on every commit).

The prerequisite to creating a build pipeline with Azure DevOps is obviously to have some code stored inside a repository.

To create a build pipeline with Azure DevOps, you need to go to the Pipelines hub and select the Pipelines action:

Figure 4.15 – Build pipeline creation

From here, you can create a new build pipeline by selecting the New pipeline button. When pressed, you will see the following screen, which asks you for a code repository:

Figure 4.16 – Selecting a repository

This screen is extremely important. From here, you can start creating a build pipeline in two possible ways (described previously):

  1. Using a YAML file to create your pipeline definition. This is what happens...