Midlands Azure User Group #5 - DevOps Special

This site will help attendees of the Midlands Azure User Group to get started with Azure DevOps. During the session we will take a look at Azure DevOps Projects. With DevOps Projects, you can start running your application on any Azure service in just three steps — simply select an application language, a runtime, and an Azure service.

If you don't already have access, you can do this by Creating a free 30-day Azure trial .

The free trial requires you to put in your credit card details - but you wont be charged unless you activate the full subscription when asked near the end of the trial.

This tutorial shows you how to create a new Azure DevOps project and then progressively explore the project in a series of simple steps:

1. Create your First Azure DevOps Project
2. Change the Sample Application home page
3. Simulate a break in the build
4. Extend your build pipeline with SonarCloud

I hope that this simple tutorial will help you to get started quickly with Azure DevOps. From here its a simple matter to move forward in a number of ways:

• Create a new project to deploy a Java Application on Kubernetes
• Evolve this project to add additional build and release tasks (e.g. automated penetration test using z-attack proxy)
• Develop a blue/green or canary deployment pipeline
• Incorporate monitoring of a canary deployment to determine whether to roll it back.

The sky really is the limit.