Beginning Azure DevOps

7Creating and Hosting Source Code Packages with Azure Artifacts

This chapter covers Azure Artifacts. Here you will learn about Azure Artifacts and how to use it to manage your source code packages.

What You Will Learn in This Chapter

• Overview of Artifact Repositories
• Introduction to Azure Artifacts
• Azure Artifact Feeds
  • Project-Scoped Feeds
  • Organizational-Scoped Feeds
  • How to Create an Azure Artifacts Feed
  • Public Feeds
• Azure Artifact Feed Views
  • Types of Azure Artifacts Feed Views
• Upstream Sources
  • Setting Up Upstream Sources
• Publishing Artifacts in Azure Pipelines
  • Publishing Artifacts Using the Publish Keyword in YAML
  • Publishing Artifacts Using a YAML Task
  • Publishing Artifacts Using the Classic Editor
• Downloading Artifacts in Azure Pipelines
  • Downloading Artifacts Using the Download Keyword in YAML
  • Downloading Artifacts Using a YAML Task
  • Downloading Artifacts Using the Classic Editor
• Summary

OVERVIEW OF ARTIFACT REPOSITORIES

As a software developer, you have probably imported and used an open-source package in one of your projects to prevent you from reinventing the wheel. These packages were created and published by other people who want to share code. Some shared packages are utility libraries, while others are frameworks for software development that can be used across different programming languages. Importing shared source code requires that the code be stored somewhere for people to gain access to it. The stored location is called an artifact repository ...