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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure
Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure

Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure: Automate your deployments and incorporate the DevOps culture

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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure

Getting Started with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
                                                                                                                       —Bill Gates

In this chapter, we will introduce Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and the sample application structure that is necessary to understand before automating the process of building and deploying the application in a desired environment. We will cover the basics of the agile process framework supported...

Introduction to VSTS

In a nutshell, DevOps is all about cultivating the culture of effective communication and collaboration between the development and operations teams to make processes efficient. The DevOps culture involves implementation of source control systems, build tools, CI, cloud computing (service models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS; deployment models such as the public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud), containers, configuration management, Continuous Delivery (CD), continuous deployment, continuous feedback, security, governance, and so on.

Microsoft Toolsets provides an easy way to deploy applications having a platform such as Java, .NET, Android, and iOS. The intent of VSTS and Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is to provide agility, scalability, faster time to market, and automation for end-to-end application life cycle management.

VSTS is a cloud-based service offering from...

Creating a free account on VSTS

To create a free account and your first project on VSTS follow these steps:

  1. Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/.
  2. Click on the Free Account button on the main page:

Make sure to create or have a live Microsoft Outlook ID before going further.

In our case, we have a Microsoft account already, so we will use the same ID to create a free account with VSTS.

  1. Enter the e-mail ID and click on Continue:
  1. If the username exists, then it will ask for the password. Enter the password and click on Sign in:
  1. You will be presented with the Visual Studio Team Services Accounts page. In our case, we already have two accounts. For this book, we will create another account:
  1. Click on Create new account and a dialog box will be opened:
  1. Enter the name of the account and select the repository with which we will manage the code. In our case, we will select Team Foundation...

Configuration and user management in VSTS

For configuration and user management follow these steps:

  1. Open the newly created project PetClinic and click on the settings icon. On the Project profile page, the team information is available. Click on PetClinic Team:
  1. By default, the admin account is already available as a team member. Click on +Add to add a new team member for collaboration:
  1. Use sign-in addresses or group aliases and click on Save changes:
  1. Verify the team members of PetClinic Team in the dashboard:
  1. Go to Dashboards of the team project and verify the Team Members section as well:

We have successfully added a team member to the main team of the project. This is how we can create a project and manage a team. In the next section, we will discuss how agile can be managed in VSTS.

Overview of agile in VSTS

Agile principles have changed the game in recent times. Because of the feature-wise implementation and short sprints, delivery of the application becomes extremely faster. An end-to-end discussion on agile is out of the scope of this book; however, we will try to give a brief summary.

There are different phases in SDLC, and traditionally, all those phases are managed or executed in a sequential manner—the waterfall model. The problem with this model is that it is in sequence and a one-time activity; each phase takes a lot of time and changes are not easy. Feedback from the customer take so long that at the end of all the phases, we as developers are not sure whether we have implemented the same product that was intended and communicated by the customer or there was a communication gap. The ideal way to deal with this is to provide frequent delivery to the customer for a few features...

Introduction to VSTS


In a nutshell, DevOps is all about cultivating the culture of effective communication and collaboration between the development and operations teams to make processes efficient. The DevOps culture involves implementation of source control systems, build tools, CI, cloud computing (service models such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS; deployment models such as the public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud), containers, configuration management, Continuous Delivery (CD), continuous deployment, continuous feedback, security, governance, and so on.

Microsoft Toolsets provides an easy way to deploy applications having a platform such as Java, .NET, Android, and iOS. The intent of VSTS and Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is to provide agility, scalability, faster time to market, and automation for end-to-end application life cycle management.

VSTS is a cloud-based service offering from Microsoft that provides the Team Foundation Server (TFS) like version control system...

Creating a free account on VSTS


To create a free account and your first project on VSTS follow these steps:

  1. Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/.
  2. Click on the Free Account button on the main page:

Make sure to create or have a live Microsoft Outlook ID before going further.

In our case, we have a Microsoft account already, so we will use the same ID to create a free account with VSTS.

  1. Enter the e-mail ID and click on Continue:
  1. If the username exists, then it will ask for the password. Enter the password and click on Sign in:
  1. You will be presented with the Visual Studio Team Services Accounts page. In our case, we already have two accounts. For this book, we will create another account:
  1. Click on Create new account and a dialog box will be opened:
  1. Enter the name of the account and select the repository with which we will manage the code. In our case, we will select Team Foundation Version Control. This selection is per project and not account specific.

Once the project is ready, we can...

Configuration and user management in VSTS


For configuration and user management follow these steps:

  1. Open the newly created project PetClinic and click on the settings icon. On the Project profile page, the team information is available. Click on PetClinic Team:
  1. By default, the admin account is already available as a team member. Click on +Add to add a new team member for collaboration:
  1. Use sign-in addresses or group aliases and click on Save changes:
  1. Verify the team members of PetClinic Team in the dashboard:
  1. Go to Dashboards of the team project and verify the Team Members section as well:

We have successfully added a team member to the main team of the project. This is how we can create a project and manage a team. In the next section, we will discuss how agile can be managed in VSTS.

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Key benefits

  • This guide highlights tools that offer development and deployment environments for application services
  • Secure and continuously monitor your web application in order to make it highly available
  • Use Visual Studio Team Services for Continuous Integration and Continuous Development to expedite your application life cycle management process
  • Use Microsoft Azure App Services (Azure Web Apps / Azure Websites), PaaS offering from Microsoft to deploy web application

Description

This book will teach you all about the Visual Studio Team Services and Microsoft Azure PaaS offerings that support Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and execution in the cloud with high availability, disaster recovery, and security. You will first be given a tour of all the concepts and tools that Microsoft Azure has to offer and how these can be used in situations to cultivate the DevOps culture. You’ll be taught how to use and manage Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and about the structure of the sample application used throughout the book. You will become familiar with the nitty gritty of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development with VSTS and Microsoft Azure Apps. You will not only learn how to create App service environments, but also how to compare Azure Web Apps and App Service Environments to deploy web applications in a more secure environment. Once you have completed Continuous Integration and created the Platform for application deployment, you will learn more about the final stepping stone in achieving end-to-end automation using approval-based Continuous Delivery and Deployment. You will then learn about Continuous Monitoring, using the monitoring and notification options provided by Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services.

Who is this book for?

This book is for DevOps engineers, system administrators, and developers (.net) who want to implement DevOps for their organization. You do not need to have any knowledge of VSTS or Azure App Services (Azure Web Apps / Azure Websites).

What you will learn

  • Explore the features of PaaS and aPaaS in DevOps
  • Use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to manage versions of code and integrating VSTS with Eclipse IDE
  • Understand and configure Continuous Integration in VSTS
  • Review Unit Test Execution for Automated Testing
  • Create different environments that can be used to continuous deploy a web application
  • Configure Roll-based Access to enable secure access for Azure Web Apps
  • Create and configure the App Service Environment to enhance security
  • Understand the execution of the end-to-end automation process
  • Conduct Performance Testing using JMeter
  • Discover the different monitoring options available in Microsoft Azure Portal

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Microsoft Azure – Cloud Platform and Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Continuous Integration with VSTS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Continuous Development with Microsoft Azure Web Apps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Continuous Delivery to Azure Web Apps and ASE Using VSTS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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For one of my Project, I need to use Microsoft Azure for application deployment and I came acroos this book few days back. I have only read Microsoft Azure – Cloud Platform and Services, Continuous Development with Microsoft Azure Web Apps, and Azure App Service Environments. It is like a video tutorial because there are many screenshots and hence I didn't need to go to portal and verify things. It essentially means that content is on a lesser side. Azure App Service Environments is a Premium service and it has been covered here in a simple manner. Overall it provides good and quick overview or Microsoft Azure PaaS.
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Excelente Livro, muito prático em sua didática e aprendizado.
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Nice book for devops and azure
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Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure book covers Continuous Integration (Build Definition) and Continuous Delivery (Release Definition). It also brings detailed information on Azure App Services and Azure App Service Environments to deploy Applications. End to End Automation has been covered using different environments and governance. Best Pratices for Azure App Services and VSTS has been covered step by step using VSTS.
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For me, a Microsoft DotNet developer who has actively avoided Java, I found it difficult to follow some section. and skipped several sections completely. For instance I've never heard of a "WAR" file, or used Jenkins, Eclipse, Ant or Maven. It's obviously the same concepts, but I would have preferred DotNet rather than Java-centric. It reduced it's value for me. Otherwise well written. Not a deep dive. Lots of screen snapshots, easy for an experienced programming to follow.
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