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Azure DevOps Explained

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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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Sjoukje Zaal is head of the Microsoft Cloud Center of Excellence, Microsoft Regional Director, and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years' experience in architecture, development, consultancy, and design-related roles. She currently works at Capgemini, a global leader in consultancy, technology services, and digital transformation. She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the user groups Tech Daily Chronicle, Global XR Community, and the Mixed Reality User Group. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays and Global Azure. Sjoukje is an international speaker and is involved in organizing many events. She has written several books and writes blogs.
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Stefano Demiliani Stefano Demiliani
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Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe. In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist.
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Amit Malik Amit Malik
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Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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 the types of agents in Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines offers two types of agents:

  • Microsoft-hosted agents
  • Self-hosted agents

Let's look at them in detail.

Microsoft-hosted agents

Microsoft-hosted agents are fully managed VMs, deployed and managed by Microsoft. You can choose to use a Microsoft-hosted agent with no additional pre-requisites or configurations. Microsoft-hosted agents are the simplest and are available at no additional cost.

Every time you execute a pipeline, you get a new VM for running the job, and it's discarded after one use.

Self-hosted agents

Self-hosted agents are servers owned by you, running in any cloud platform or data center owned by you. Self-hosted agents are preferred due to various reasons, including security, scalability, and performance.

You can configure your self-hosted agent to have the dependencies pre-installed, which will help you decrease the time for your pipeline execution.

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Profile icon Sjoukje Zaal
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Sjoukje Zaal is head of the Microsoft Cloud Center of Excellence, Microsoft Regional Director, and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years' experience in architecture, development, consultancy, and design-related roles. She currently works at Capgemini, a global leader in consultancy, technology services, and digital transformation. She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the user groups Tech Daily Chronicle, Global XR Community, and the Mixed Reality User Group. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays and Global Azure. Sjoukje is an international speaker and is involved in organizing many events. She has written several books and writes blogs.
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Profile icon Stefano Demiliani
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Stefano Demiliani is a Microsoft MVP on Business Applications and Azure, MCT, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Certified Architect, and an expert in other Microsoft related technologies. His main activity is architecting and developing enterprise solutions based on the entire stack of Microsoft technologies (mainly focused on ERP and serverless applications). He has worked with Packt Publishing on many IT books related to Azure cloud applications and Dynamics 365 Business Central and is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around Europe. In his free time Stefano is also a runner and a cyclist.
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Profile icon Amit Malik
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Amit Malik is an IT enthusiast and technology evangelist from Delhi, India. He specializes in Virtualization, Cloud, and emerging technology space. He has an intense knowledge in building cloud solutions with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack. Amit holds various industry admired certifications from all major OEM's in Virtualization and Cloud space including MCSE for Private Cloud. Amit has designed and built numerous virtualization and private cloud solutions comprising the product lines of Microsoft, VMware, and Citrix. Apart from these, he can be found working on emerging technologies including VDI, hyper convergence, Software Defined Infrastructure solutions including networking and storage, Containers, Big Data, IoT, and other similar technologies. Amit is interested in building products and doing product management in near future for related technology space. You can always reach Amit on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/amitmalik99)or email (contact2amitmalik@gmail.com)
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