Chapter 8: Git and Azure DevOps
In Chapter 7, Deploying Applications on Azure, we finished deploying the frontend and backend applications, and with that we completed the design, development, and deployment of our applications. In this chapter, we will look at using Git for version management and Azure for automating the deployment process.
In a real-life application, often several developers would work together to develop and test the application. They can work on different features of the application and can also be in different locations. This poses the challenge of how to manage the overall code base and how to share and synchronize code between developers and teams. Multiple version-management tools and techniques are available to facilitate this, such as SVN (short for Subversion), TFVC (short for Team Foundation Version Control), and Git. Our focus in this chapter will be to use Git from VS Code and create Git repositories in Azure DevOps.
The following topics will be...