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Azure DevOps Explained

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563513
Pages 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Sjoukje Zaal Sjoukje Zaal
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Stefano Demiliani Stefano Demiliani
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Amit Malik Amit Malik
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project Management
2. Chapter 1: Azure DevOps Overview 3. Chapter 2: Managing Projects with Azure DevOps Boards 4. Section 2: Source Code and Builds
5. Chapter 3: Source Control Management with Azure DevOps 6. Chapter 4: Understanding Azure DevOps Pipelines 7. Chapter 5: Running Quality Tests in a Build Pipeline 8. Chapter 6: Hosting Your Own Azure Pipeline Agent 9. Section 3: Artifacts and Deployments
10. Chapter 7: Using Artifacts with Azure DevOps 11. Chapter 8: Deploying Applications with Azure DevOps 12. Section 4: Advanced Features of Azure DevOps
13. Chapter 9: Integrating Azure DevOps with GitHub 14. Chapter 10: Using Test Plans with Azure DevOps 15. Chapter 11: Real-World CI/CD Scenarios with Azure DevOps 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding SCM

Source control (or version control) is a software practice used to track and manage changes in source code. This is an extremely important practice because it permits to maintain a single source of code across different developers and helps with collaborating on a single software project (where different developers works on the same code base).

SCM is an essential practice in any DevOps process. To adopt a source control policy, you should do the following:

  • Select a source control management system to adopt (for example, install Git on a server or use a cloud-based SCM such as Azure DevOps Repos or GitHub)
  • Store your code base in a repository managed by your source control management system
  • Clone the repository locally for development by taking the latest code version (pull) stored in the central repository
  • Commit and push your released code to the central repository
  • Use different copies of the repository for developing in a parallel way...
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