Azure DevOps for IoT Edge Solutions

Abstract

Now that we have built a good foundational understanding of Azure IoT Edge solutions, understanding how to automate the build and deployment processes for those solutions is extremely helpful as you’re getting ready to deploy your solutions to production. You may already be familiar with the Azure DevOps service, but if not, in this chapter you will see how to use Azure DevOps to build and deploy IoT Edge solutions. Azure DevOps is the latest evolution in Microsoft’s hosted development team management environment. It enables teams to collaborate on project work, develop and track the project deliverables like code. and build scripts as well as track the release and deployment of the project artifacts. One of the reasons Azure DevOps is a great choice for managing your IoT Edge deployments is the integration it provides with Docker and the support it provides for containers in general. Additionally, there are tailored workflows for IoT Edge development that simplify much of the build and release process. Azure DevOps is a large topic. In this chapter, after we establish some of the basic concepts, we will focus our attention on the workflows and processes required to develop and deploy Azure IoT Edge solutions.