You're reading from Learning DevOps A comprehensive guide to accelerating DevOps culture adoption with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Jenkins

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818964

Length 560 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

View More author details

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code

2. Chapter 1: The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure

5. Chapter 4: Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer

6. Chapter 5: Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant

7. Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

8. Chapter 6: Managing Your Source Code with Git

9. Chapter 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

10. Chapter 8: Deploying Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD Pipelines

11. Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes

12. Chapter 9: Containerizing Your Application with Docker

13. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Effectively with Kubernetes

14. Section 4: Testing Your Application

15. Chapter 11: Testing APIs with Postman

16. Chapter 12: Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

17. Chapter 13: Security and Performance Tests

18. Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps

19. Chapter 14: Security in the DevOps Process with DevSecOps

20. Chapter 15: Reducing Deployment Downtime

21. Chapter 16: DevOps for Open Source Projects

22. Chapter 17: DevOps Best Practices

23. Assessments

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Azure Pipelines for CI/CD

Azure Pipelines is one of the services offered by Azure DevOps. It was previously known as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

Azure DevOps is a complete DevOps platform provided by Microsoft that is fully accessible via a web browser and requires no installation. It is very useful for the following reasons:

The DevOps tools manage their code in a version control system (VCS).
It manages a project in agile mode.
It deploys applications in a CI/CD pipeline, to centralize packages.
It performs manual test plans.

Each of these features is combined into services that are summarized in this table:

Table 7.1 – Azure DevOps services list

Azure DevOps is free for up to five users. Beyond that, there is a license version with per-user costs. For more information on licensing, refer to the product sheet at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/, which also...