Implementing CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines

Harness the power of Azure Pipelines to build and automate CI/CD solutions with ease

Key Features

• Develop automated end-to-end CI/ CD solutions with Azure Pipelines
• Learn how to implement and configure your pipeline with real examples and scenarios
• Get the skills you need to develop and deploy your organization's software efficiently

Book Description

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are ubiquitous concepts in modern development. There are many different services out there that you can use for CI/CD, and one of them is Azure Pipelines. Want to know how it works? You've come to the right place.

Implementing CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines takes you through the process of building and automating CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines and YAML, simplifying integration with Azure resources and reducing human error.

Beginning with an overview of Azure Pipelines and why you should use it, this book will get you set up with build and release pipelines, and then build upon this by introducing the extensive power of YAML syntax, which you can use to implement and configure any task you can think of. Before you know it, you'll be thrust into real-life scenarios and hands-on implementation tasks with Docker, AKS, and Firebase, but not before you've seen how to integrate Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, and perform code analysis with SonarQube.

After reading this book, you'll be able to design and build CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines with consummate ease, and write the YAML syntax to implement and configure all the tasks you can think of.

What you will learn

• Create multiple jobs, stages, and tasks on the Azure DevOps portal
• Use YAML syntax for Node.js, .NET, Docker, and SQL Server tasks
• Automate microservice applications on AKS clusters
• Deploy Docker applications on AWS LightSail
• Use SonarQube, Test Project, and OWASP Zap for security and testing
• Deploy CI/CD on Flutter-based mobile applications
• Implement secrets with Azure Key Vault on Azure Pipelines
• Deploy a Node.js application in Azure Container Instances

Who This Book Is For

The book is intended for DevOps Engineers and application developers looking to manage CI/CD using Azure Pipelines with the help of real-world use cases. It can be assumed that the reader of this book already understands DevOps concepts and how to build and deploy the general web and mobile applications manually.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding the Azure Pipeline
2. Setting up the pools, deployment groups, and self-hosted agents
3. Creating the build pipelines with stages, jobs, and tasks
4. Creating the release pipelines with global groups
5. Extending the advanced Azure Pipeline using YAML
6. Implementing the build pipelines using development tasks
7. Integrating the testing and security tasks
8. Provisioning the infrastructure
9. Completing the CI/CD for Azure serverless
10. Automating CI/CD for Firebase applications
11. Deploying CI/CD for the dockerized AWS applications
12. Azure Pipelines common mistakes and the road ahead