What is Azure DevOps...???....What is the Azure Pipeline....???....

 

What is Azure DevOps...???

Azure DevOps is a comprehensive Package offering a wide-Range of assistance that covers the whole SDLC or Application development life cycle. Here are some of significant features of Azure DevOps:

 Azure Boards: Permits Work items tracking, Agile Planning, Power BI Visualization, and similar for other reporting tools.

Azure Pipelines: Characterizes CI/CD (Continues Integration/Continues Deployment Process) with help for containers and Kubernetes.

Azure Repos: Offers full-help for cloud-facilitated private repositories.

Azure Artifacts: this  is an extension that makes easy to discover, install, and publish NuGet, npm, and Maven packages in Azure DevOps. This is  deeply integrated with other hubs like Build so that package management can be a seamless part of your existing workflows

 Azure Test Plans: it  provides an  Integrated Planning and examination of testing arrangements.

Azure  DevOps is the element rich mature model presented by Microsoft for organizations to deal with Multiple Tasks at the same time.

What is the Azure Pipeline?

Azure Pipeline is an automated set of processes which helps developers to compile, build, and deploy the codes on other computation platforms. This is  a continuous delivery tool that is equal  to open source Jenkins or CodeShip. Aim of this pipeline is that there is no manual intervention, changes which are done all are automatically executed in the project. Whenever humans are handling the process, there is a possibility of human errors while doing the same repetitive boring tasks, but by using automation, it works efficiently once it’s configured.

A pipeline is normally divided into the following categories:

• Source Control
• Build Tools
• Package creation
• Configuration management
• Monitoring

This Pipelines are used with many application types such as Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, .Net, C++ and XCode. To utilize this , you will need a source control to attach with it. such as GitHub, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Subversion, etc.

This pipeline is based on the strong foundations of CI/CD pipelines which consistently test, build and deploy. 

Continuous Integration (CI):

Continuous Integration helps to catch the bugs and issues in the early stage of the development cycle while fixing errors is simpler and fast. Developers check their codes in version-controlled repositories, check-in their code to test and locate errors. benefits are:

• Minor changes are easier to merge in large codes.
• Easier for big teams to see what each one has been working on.
• Locate bugs and make them easier to fix.
• Continuous code compilation and testing.
• Making the integration process smooth thus improves productivity.
  
  

Continuous Delivery (CD):

Continuous Delivery is the process of integrating code with the infrastructure, ensuring all tests are done and policies are followed, and finally deploying the code into the desired environment.CD helps developers to deliver new features, fix bugs and configure changes reliably and quickly. The benefits are:

• Decreases risks in releases.
• Faster delivery of bug fixes and issues.
• Delivery can be feasible at any scale.

Azure Pipelines provides YAML syntax and a classic interface to setup CI-CD pipelines.