- Azure DevOps Explained
- Why subscribe?
- Contributors
- About the authors
- About the reviewers
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- Preface
- Section 1: DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project Management
- Chapter 1: Azure DevOps Overview
- Introducing DevOps
- Understanding DevOps principles
- Principle 1 – Customer-centric action
- Principle 2 – Create with the end in mind
- Principle 3 – End-to-end responsibility
- Principle 4 – Cross-functional autonomous teams
- Principle 5 – Continuous improvement
- Principle 6 – Automate everything
- Introducing Azure DevOps key concepts
- Plan
- Develop
- Deliver
- Operate
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Agile development support
- Version control
- Infrastructure as Code
- Configuration Management
- Monitoring
- Discovering Azure DevOps services
- Azure Boards
- Azure Repos
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Test Plans
- Azure Artifacts
- Extension Marketplace
- Introducing the scenarios
- Creating the starter project
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Managing Projects with Azure DevOps Boards
- Section 2: Source Code and Builds
- Chapter 3: Source Control Management with Azure DevOps
- Technical requirements
- Understanding SCM
- Exploring branching strategies
- GitHub Flow
- GitLab Flow
- Git Flow
- Handling source control with Azure DevOps
- Cloning a remote repository
- Importing a GitHub repository into Azure DevOps
- Working with commits, pushes, and branches
- Protecting branches with policies
- Cross-repo policies
- Working with pull requests
- Creating a pull request from the Azure DevOps pull request page
- Creating a pull request from a work item
- Creating a pull request after pushing a branch
- Creating a pull request from Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio
- Handling a pull request
- Tagging a release
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Understanding Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Technical requirements
- Implementing a CI/CD process
- Overview of Azure Pipelines
- Understanding build agents
- Microsoft-hosted agents
- Self-hosted agents
- When to use a Microsoft-hosted or a self-hosted agent
- Overview of the YAML language
- Scalars
- Collections and lists
- Dictionaries
- Document structure
- Complex object definition
- Creating a build pipeline with Azure DevOps
- Pipeline definition with the classic editor
- YAML pipeline definition
- Retention of builds
- Multi-stage pipeline
- Building a pipeline with GitHub repositories
- Executing jobs in parallel in an Azure Pipeline
- Agents on Azure Container Instances
- Using container jobs in Azure Pipelines
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Running Quality Tests in a Build Pipeline
- Technical requirements
- Benefits of automatic testing
- Introduction to unit testing
- Running unit tests in a build pipeline
- Downloading the source code
- Creating the pipeline
- Introduction to code coverage testing
- Performing code coverage testing
- Assigning test results to work items
- Introduction to Feature Flags
- Using Feature Flags to test in production
- Creating a new .NET Core application
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Hosting Your Own Azure Pipeline Agent
- Technical requirements
- Azure pipeline agent overview
- Understanding the types of agents in Azure Pipelines
- Microsoft-hosted agents
- Self-hosted agents
- Planning and setting up your self-hosted Azure pipeline agent
- Choosing the right OS/image for the agent VM
- OS support and pre-requisites for installing an Azure Pipelines agent
- Creating a VM in Azure for your project
- Setting up the build agent
- Updating your Azure pipeline to use self-hosted agents
- Preparing your self-hosted agent to build the Parts Unlimited project
- Running the Azure pipeline
- Using containers as self-hosted agents
- Setting up Windows containers as Azure pipeline agents
- Setting up Linux containers as Azure Pipelines agents
- Using Azure Container Instances as agents
- Environment variables
- Planning for scale
- Creating an Azure VM scale set
- Setting up Azure pipeline agents with VM scale set
- Summary
- Section 3: Artifacts and Deployments
- Chapter 7: Using Artifacts with Azure DevOps
- Technical requirements
- Introducing Azure Artifacts
- Creating an artifact feed with Azure Artifacts
- Producing the package using a build pipeline
- Adding the sample project to the PartsUnlimited repository
- Creating the build pipeline
- Publishing the package to the feed from a build pipeline
- Setting the required permissions on the feed
- Consuming the package in Visual Studio from the Artifacts feed
- Scanning for package vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 8: Deploying Applications with Azure DevOps
- Technical requirements
- An overview of release pipelines
- Creating a release pipeline with Azure DevOps
- Creating the Azure DevOps release
- Configuring the release pipeline triggers for continuous deployment
- Creating a multi-stage release pipeline
- Using approvals and gates for managing deployments
- Creating approvals
- Using gates to check conditions
- Using deployment groups
- YAML release pipelines with Azure DevOps
- Summary
- Section 4: Advanced Features of Azure DevOps
- Chapter 9: Integrating Azure DevOps with GitHub
- Technical requirements
- An overview of Azure DevOps and GitHub integration
- Integrating Azure Pipelines with GitHub
- Setting up Azure Pipelines and GitHub integration
- Testing continuous integration
- Adding a build Status badge
- Integrating Azure Boards with GitHub
- Setting up Azure Boards and GitHub integration
- Adding an Azure Boards Status badge
- Linking Azure Boards work items to GitHub objects
- Updating work items from GitHub
- Overview of GitHub Actions
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Using Test Plans with Azure DevOps
- Technical requirements
- Introduction to Azure Test Plans
- Exploratory testing
- Installing and using the Test & Feedback extension
- Planned manual testing
- Test plans, test suites, and test cases
- Managing test plans, test suites, and test cases
- Running and analyzing a manual test plan
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 11: Real-World CI/CD Scenarios with Azure DevOps
- Technical requirements
- Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for .NET-based applications
- Introduction to the sample application
- Preparing the pre-requisite Azure infrastructure
- Setting up an Azure DevOps project
- Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a container-based application
- Introduction to the sample app
- Setting up the required infrastructure
- Setting up Azure Repos for the voting application
- Setting up the CI pipeline
- Setting up the CD pipeline
- Simulating an end-to-end CI/CD experience
- Azure Architecture Center for DevOps
- Summary
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Section 2: Source Code and Builds
In this section, Azure builds are covered as well as how to manage your source code in Azure DevOps.
This section contains the following chapters:
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