Who this book is for

This book is specially aimed at developers, technical leads, testers, and operational professionals, who are the target readers and will want to jump start Microsoft Azure PaaS offerings such as App Services and SQL Database to host applications. Readers are aware of the issues faced by development and operations teams as they are stakeholders in the application life cycle management process. The reasons to jump start Microsoft Azure PaaS and VSTS are to understand the importance of their contribution to continuous integration, automated test case execution, and continuous delivery for effective application life cycle management.

No prior experience with continuous integration, cloud computing, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment is assumed. You may be a novice or be experienced with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and Atlassian Bamboo.

This book covers continuous integration, cloud computing, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment for a sample Spring-based application. The main objective is to see end-to-end automation and implement it on the Microsoft technology stack that can be extended further based on the understanding gained from this book.