Hands-on Azure Pipelines: Understanding Continuous Integration and Deployment in Azure DevOps

✍ Scribed by Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Build, package, and deploy software projects, developed with any language targeting any platform, using Azure pipelines.

The book starts with an overview of CI/CD and the need for software delivery automation. It further delves into the basic concepts of Azure pipelines followed by a hands-on guide to setting up agents on all platforms enabling software development in any language. Moving forward, you will learn to set up a pipeline using the classic Visual Editor using PowerShell scripts, a REST API, building edit history, retention, and much more. You’ll work with artifact feeds to store deployment packages and consume them in a build. As part of the discussion you’ll see the implementation and usage of YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) build pipelines. You will then create Azure release pipelines in DevOps and develop extensions for Azure pipelines. Finally, you will learn various strategies and patterns for developing pipelines and go through some sample lessons on building and deploying pipelines.

After reading Hands-on Azure Pipelines, you will be able to combine CI and CD to constantly and consistently test and build your code and ship it to any target.

What You Will Learn

• Work with Azure build-and-release pipelines
• Extend the capabilities and features of Azure pipelines
• Understand build, package, and deployment strategies, and versioning and patterns with Azure pipelines
• Create infrastructure and deployment that targets commonly used Azure platform services
• Build and deploy mobile applications
• Use quick-start Azure DevOps projects

Who This Book Is For

Software developers and test automation engineers who are involved in the software delivery process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Understanding the Importance of Software Delivery Automation (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 1-8
Overview of Azure Pipelines (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 9-26
Setting Up Pools, Deployment Groups, and Agents (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 27-47
Creating Build Pipelines-Classic-Source Control, Templates, Jobs, and Tasks (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 49-73
Creating Build Pipelines – Classic – Variables, Triggers, Filters, Options, and Retaining (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 75-93
Creating Build Pipelines –Classic-Queuing, Debugging, Task Groups, Artifacts, and Import/Export Options (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 95-112
Using Artifacts (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 113-121
Creating and Using YAML Build Pipelines (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 123-142
Azure Release Pipelines – Service Connections, Templates, Artifacts, Stages, and Environments (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 143-161
Azure Release Pipelines – Jobs, Deployment Groups, Variables, and Other Options (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 163-178
REST API, Command Line, and Extension Development (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 179-192
Integrating Tests to Pipelines (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 193-198
Back Matter ....Pages 199-201

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Microsoft and .NET; Computer Communication Networks