Azure Devops for Web Developers: Streamlined Application Development Using Azure Devops Features

Chapter 1: DevOps Basics and Variations

Covers the basic concepts of DevOps and how the journey or explain the maturity model of DevOps in an organization. This roughly cover the concepts like DevOps Team, DevOps Practices, DevOps Variations- DevOps 1.0, DevOps 2.0, SecDevOps and Intelligent DevOps

Chapter 2: Project Management Using Azure DevOps

This chapter talks about organization and project. Start with creation of Azure DevOps organization, user management, Security policies, permissions, Azure AD integration, etc. Then, step into a single project and explain project level permissions, areas, iterations, process, etc.

Chapter 3: Requirement Management Using Azure DevOps

Explain the usage of different work items like Epic, features, product backlog, spring backlog, etc. How the requirements are tracked in the system

Chapter 4: Version Control Using Azure DevOps

Explain the version control system, possibilities to integrate with external systems, how to work offline and online mode, etc. Branching and merging strategy followed by various teams.

Chapter 5: Test Management Using Azure DevOps

This chapter focus of the Test plans which should be executed to verify the implementations.

Chapter 6: Continuous Integration and Build Automation
Discuss about the concept of Continuous Integration with the help of web application and database project. Also, explain more about the code quality and security implementations in build configuration.

Chapter 7: Release Pipeline and Continuous Deployment

This chapter focus on the release pipeline and Infrastructure as a code implementation. Covers ARM based environment provisioning, execution of automated test scripts, implementation of quality gates and approval flows, and release to various environments.

Chapter 8: Continuous Feedback and Other Features

Explains the Integration of AppInsights back to the DevOps backlog, alert configurations, collaboration features.

Chapter 9: DevOps Architecture Blueprints

This chapter covers architecture blueprints for commonly used Azure product catalogs.

Chapter 10: DevOps for Support Team

This chapter covers more about the Swarming support model and various architecture options.