Understanding Azure Pipelines
This book will be one of your favorite books in the Microsoft DevOps world as it provides a comprehensive guide to learning all about Azure Pipelines and will allow you to become an experienced Azure DevOps engineer. An Azure DevOps engineer is an individual who is responsible for designing and implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using the Azure Pipelines service, which is a component of Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is a group of Microsoft services that help a project team achieve the project’s goal.
In this chapter, you will be introduced to the CI/CD and Azure DevOps concepts in greater detail and will learn about the advantages of using Azure Pipelines to create CI/CD pipelines for the application deployment process. More specifically, in this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:
- What is CI/CD?
- Introducing Azure DevOps
- Introducing Azure Pipelines and its components
- Comparing Azure Pipelines with other CI/CD tools
- Setting up agent pools
- Creating a personal access token (PAT)
- Setting up and updating self-host agents
- Setting up deployment groups
