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

Planning and setting up your self-hosted Azure pipeline agent

In order to use a self-hosted agent with Azure Pipelines, you will need to set up a machine and configure it for your pipeline requirements. Typically, you would choose an OS version best suited for your project, considering the framework, libraries, and build tools compatibility.

For the purpose of this demonstration, we'll be setting up a VM in Azure and will configure it to use a self-hosted agent. You can choose to host your agent server in any cloud or on-premises environment.

Choosing the right OS/image for the agent VM

The first decision you take while setting up the VM is choosing the OS/image for the server depending on your target deployment. If you are deploying in an on-premises environment, you may just select one of the supported OS versions (such as Windows Server 2016) and install the necessary software. In the case of cloud deployments, you have multiple options provided in the form of images...