Build applications with Azure DevOps

Overview

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Module 1: Set up a continuous integration (CI) pipeline that automates the process of building your application.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

Create a build pipeline in Azure Pipelines
Map manual build steps to automated build tasks
Publish your builds so others can access them
Use templates to build multiple configurations

Module 2: Learn along with the Space Game web team the benefits of collaboration through Visual Studio Code and GitHub.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

Collaborate with others by choosing an appropriate branching and merging strategy
Add a badge to your GitHub repository to show the status of the latest build
Add a dashboard widget to help visualize your build history
Set up a rule on your GitHub repository to require a review

Module 3: Find out about automated testing that proves your code to be maintainable, understandable, and functioning without repetitive manual testing.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

Explain the benefits of automated testing and the kinds of testing you can use
Run unit tests locally and then in Azure Pipelines
Add dashboard widgets to visualize test runs over time
Perform code coverage testing to see how much of your code is covered by unit tests
Fix and verify test failures in your build pipeline

Module 4: In this module, the Space Game web team guides you through creating a build pipeline that produces a package that can be used by multiple applications.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

Create and share packages that can be used by multiple applications
Create a build pipeline for your package and publish your package to Azure Artifacts
Connect an application to your package and build the application in Azure Pipelines
Push changes to your package and update your application to use them

Module 5: Work with guidance from the Space Game web team to set up your build agent running on-premises or on an Azure virtual machine running in the cloud.

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

Choose when to use Microsoft-hosted build agents and when to host your own
Describe the options you have when you're managing your own build agents
Bring up and configure your own agent to work with Azure Pipelines
Connect your agent to a pipeline and build your application