Reusable Job and stage Templates

• Refer Here for examples on Job Templates and Refer Here for resuable Stage Templates

Service Connections

• Azure DevOps Service Connections Refer Here

Extensions

• Extensions in Azure DevOps are additional functionality provided by community.
• W.r.t YAML pipelines, Extensions give us extra tasks.
• Tasks in AzureDevOPs are implemented in nodejs
• Refer Here for an extension which helps in using terraform from yaml task
• To develop custom tasks Refer Here
• Lets install an extension for Terraform
  
  
  
  
• AWS DevOps Toolkit for Azure DevOps pipelines Refer Here and Refer Here for marketplace

Handling Artifacts

• How to archive build artifacts
• Azure DevOps has a task to copy the artifacts to
  • Azure pipelines
  • File Shares
• Refer Here for task definition
• Refer Here for reusable template
  
• The work done so far is copied to folder. To download the published artifact we have a task Refer Here
• To store artifacts we have special softwares such as nexus, jfrog etc. Azure DevOps offers Azure Artifacts for the same purpose
• Azure Artifacts Refer Here
• used goal deploy Refer Here
• Azure Artifacts deploy ( Lets see this tomorrow)
• Next Steps:
  • Releases and Release Pipelines
  • Secrets
  • Code, Docker & k8s Scan (DevSecOps on Azure DevOps Pipelines)
  • Azure Artifacts for maven