Implementing CI/CD Using Azure Pipelines: Manage and automate the secure flexible deployment of applications using real-world use cases

Key Features

• Develop automated end-to-end CI/CD solutions with Azure Pipelines
• Learn how to implement and configure your pipeline using real-world examples and scenarios
• Gain the skills you need to efficiently develop and deploy your organization’s software
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are ubiquitous concepts in modern development. Azure Pipelines is one of the most popular services that you can utilize for CI/CD, and this book shows you how it works by taking 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.

You’ll begin by getting an overview of Azure Pipelines and why you should use it. Next, the book helps you get to grips with build and release pipelines, and then builds upon this by introducing the extensive power of YAML syntax, which you can use to implement and configure any task you can think of. As you advance, you’ll discover how to integrate Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform, and perform code analysis with SonarQube. In the concluding chapters, you’ll delve into real-life scenarios and hands-on implementation tasks with Microsoft Azure services, AWS, and cross-mobile application with Flutter, Google Firebase, and more.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and build CI/CD systems using Azure Pipelines with consummate ease, write code using YAML, and configure any task that comes to mind.

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 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters
• Deploy Docker applications on AWS container services
• Use SonarQube and Jenkins for security and artifacts
• Implement CI/CD on Flutter-based mobile applications
• Utilize Azure Key Vault secrets in Azure Pipelines
• Build a Node.js application in Azure Container Instances

Who this book is for

This book is for DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs, application developers, and sysadmins looking to manage CI/CD using Azure Pipelines with the help of real-world use cases. A clear understanding of cloud computing services on Azure and AWS, DevOps, and CI/CD concepts, along with knowledge of building and deploying web and mobile applications automatically on cloud is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding Azure Pipelines
2. Creating Build Pipelines
3. Setting Variables, Environments, Approvals, and Checks
4. Extending Advanced Azure Pipelines Using YAML
5. Implementing the Build Pipeline Using Deployment Tasks
6. Integrating Testing, Security Tasks, and Other Tools
7. Monitoring Azure Pipelines
8. Provisioning Infrastructure Using Infrastructure as Code
9. Implementing CI/CD for Azure Services
10. Implementing CI/CD for AWS
11. Automating CI/CD for Cross-Mobile Applications by Using Flutter
12. Navigating Common Pitfalls and Future Trends in Azure Pipelines

Piti Champeethong is a senior consulting engineer at MongoDB, Singapore. He has been a part of the software development community for over 20 years and specializes in database application development and CI/CD implementation. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, lecturer, and community leader. He lives in Thailand and engages with Thai tech communities, such as the MongoDB Thailand User Group and the Thailand .NET community by speaking at various events. He has made significant contributions to public repositories on .NET and MongoDB technologies, supporting the growth of the Thai tech community.

Roberto Mardeni has been working in the IT industry for over two decades. He specializes in software development, architecture, and DevSecOps practices around many different application platforms and CI/CD tools, typically focusing on Microsoft .NET and other open source programming languages. He has been working since 2017 as an application innovation specialist on the enterprise sales side at Microsoft, supporting their cloud business. He lives in the United States and helps some of the largest independent software vendors to adopt the Azure platform. This is his first foray into technical writing, but he has contributed to the open source community in different GitHub public repositories of his own and contributed to others as well.