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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

Summary

In this chapter, we provided an overview of the Azure Pipelines service and we saw how to implement a CI/CD process by using Azure DevOps. We also saw how to create a pipeline for code hosted in a repository by using the graphical interface and by using YAML, as well as how to use and create build agents. We then looked at how to create a build pipeline by using the classic editor and by using a YAML definition. We also saw an example of a multi-stage pipeline and how to use Azure DevOps pipelines to build code inside a GitHub repository, before looking at how to use parallel tasks in a build pipeline to improve build performance. Finally, we learned how to create a build agent on Azure Container Instances and how to use a container's jobs.

In the next chapter, we'll learn how to execute quality tests for our code base in a build pipeline.