Your beginner’s guide to Azure for DevOps

In Beginning Azure® DevOps: Planning, Building, Testing, and Releasing Software Applications on Azure, award-winning software engineer Adora Nwodo delivers a novice-friendly discussion of Azure DevOps and how to apply Azure’s various services to your software development projects. In the book, you’ll explore every built-in Azure DevOps tool required to plan, build, test, and ship applications, including project management, version control, testing, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

The author explains how to plan software development projects, as well as build and release pipelines, testing strategies, infrastructure as code techniques, and artifacts. She also includes source code for instructive practice exercises and which you can clone from GitHub and import into your Azure DevOps projects to help improve collaboration, automate your code-to-cloud workflows, and secure your code with advanced capabilities.

Perfect for beginning users seeking to learn about the possibilities unlocked by Azure DevOps tools, Beginning Azure DevOps is also essential for DevOps professionals familiar with other cloud platforms and curious about Azure. The book shows you how to:

• Use Azure Boards to manage projects
• Manage source control with Azure Repos
• Test your software
• Automate code builds and releases with Azure Pipelines
• Automate infrastructure with Azure Bicep
• Package code with Azure Artifacts

The perfect DevOps guide for beginning Azure users

In Beginning Azure DevOps: Planning, Building, Testing and Releasing Software Applications on Azure, award-winning software engineer Adora Nwodo delivers a beginner's guide to DevOps on the Microsoft-powered Azure cloud platform. In the book, you'll learn to deploy Azure's built-in DevOps tools required to plan, build, test, and ship applications.

The author explains how to use Azure's functionality for project management, version control, code testing, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). She discusses how to plan software development projects from start to finish using Agile and Scrum techniques. Readers will also find:

• Updated source code repositories on GitHub with instructive practice exercises
• Strategies for improving collaboration and automating your code-to-cloud workflows
• Techniques for securing your code with advanced capabilities

An essential resource for Azure novices who hope to learn about the myriad possibilities unlocked by Azure DevOps tools, Beginning Azure DevOps will also earn a place in the libraries of software professionals familiar with other cloud platforms who hope to gain a foothold in the Azure cloud environment.