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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

Updating your Azure pipeline to use self-hosted agents

In this section, we'll take the Azure pipeline scenario covered in the last chapters (PartsUnlimited) and modify it to use our newly created self-hosted agent. This will enable us to use our self-hosted agent to run the pipelines, rather than using Microsoft-provided agents.

Preparing your self-hosted agent to build the Parts Unlimited project

Before we can start using the self-hosted agent, we must prepare it to support building our sample project, PartsUnlimited. The PartsUnlimited project is built using Visual Studio leveraging .NET Framework, Azure development tools and .NET Core, Node.js, and so on. In order to use our self-hosted agent for building the solution, we must install the required dependencies prior to running the pipeline jobs:

  1. Log in to your self-hosted agent VM.
  2. Download the Visual Studio build tools with this link: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio...