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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli
Book Image

Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli

Overview of this book

Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a comprehensive on-premise DevOps toolset with a rich ecosystem of open source plugins. This book will help you learn how to effectively use the different Azure DevOps services. You will start by building high-quality scalable software targeting .NET, .NET Core and Node.js applications. Next, you will learn techniques that will help you to set up end-to-end traceability of your code changes, from design through to release. Whether you are deploying software on-premise or in the cloud in App Service, Functions, or Azure VMs, this book will help you learn release management techniques to reduce failures. As you progress, you will be able to secure application configuration by using Azure Key Vault. You will also understand how to create and release extensions to the Azure DevOps marketplace and reach the million-strong developer ecosystem for feedback. Later, the working extension samples will even allow you to iterate changes in your extensions easily and release updates to the marketplace quickly. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to break down the invisible silos between your software development teams, and transform them into a modern cross-functional software development team.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Unattended configuration of build agents using PowerShell 


Azure DevOps Server Build and Release agents are the engines of your build system; the size of the infrastructure translates to the speed at which you can run and scale the build process. As you ramp up the use of the build system to automate Continuous Integration pipelines, you are going to need more agents. An automated process to add and remove build agents allows you to scale up and scale down the agents on demand. The build system has native support for unattended installation. In this recipe, we'll learn how to configure a build agent programmatically in an unattended mode using PowerShell. 

Getting ready

To configure a build agent, you should be a member of the build administrators group and an administrator on the target machine. If the target machine is Windows 10 or beyond (x64), all the prerequisites will already be in place. If the target machine is Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to Windows Server...