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What is Azure DevOps? Who is it for? What is the big picture?
Azure DevOps is the collaboration hub for everyone in the development team, including project managers, testers, architects, developers and end-users. Here we will create a team project and configure it.
Sources are probably the most important part in any software project and we need a way to keep track of all sources and all changes. Azure Repos gives you the choice between TFVS and Git for storing your source history, branching, merging and everything else required.
Multiple developers working on the same code base requires some central place for all your code and changes. In git these are known as remote repositories
How can we avoid code changes from one developer interfering with code from others? Branching has always been used to allow developers to complete their changes before integrating with with other's.
Working as a team on the same code base comes with its own challenges. Things like false cognates, code conventions, SOLID principles etc. could result in good or bad code quality. Pull requests allow you to ensure that your code keeps its high quality.
The project backlog contains all the features that users have requested. This does not mean we will immediately add this feature, for this we have backlog planning where we try to identity the features we want to build next.
Once we have decided which features we will build next, we will identity the various tasks that need to be completed to built that feature. We will look at balancing product, schedule and cost.
Ready? Set? Go! During the sprint the whole team builds the next features. Communication here is essential, so we will look at the daily standup meeting and how VSTS can help. We will also look at reporting in VSTS.
To build quality software, and to limit nasty integration problems at the end of the project, doing a daily build is long regarded as a best practice. Azure DevOps makes building daily very easy through the build system. You'll learn how to manage the build, do desktop builds, and how you can setup Team Build to work in a continuous integration environment. You'll then learn how to customize the build process to perform all your build steps including running unit tests, creating custom build actions, generating setup programs and deploying to staging servers.
With continuous deployment you can automatically setup a machine in a consistent state, whenever you want. Not only can you deploy your application, but also setup your infrastructure.
Don't deploy your infrastructure manually! Deploy your Infrastructure as Code.
Modern development uses packages like NuGet, NPM or others. With Azure Artifacts you can create your own private or public package feeds.
In this course you will learn about using Azure DevOps to manage the application development lifecycle, showing how DevOps can improve the efficiency and code quality of your team. You will perform project management, source control (no real coding skill required for the exercise), build, release automation and infrastructure as code with Azure DevOps. Finally we will look at Azure Artifacts and how to integrate with DevOps.
Anyone who is involved in application development. Exercices don't require real coding skills as they are for illustrating the workflow with Azure DevOps.