Hands-on Azure Pipelines: Understanding Continuous Integration and Deployment in Azure DevOps

© Chaminda Chandrasekara and Pushpa Herath 2020

C. Chandrasekara, P. HerathHands-on Azure Pipelineshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5902-3_7

7. Using Artifacts

Chaminda Chandrasekara¹   and Pushpa Herath²

(1)

Dedigamuwa, Sri Lanka

(2)

Hanguranketha, Sri Lanka

 

Artifacts or output from the build contain the binary files and required supportive files to deploy software to a target environment. Depending on the type of project that is being built, and depending on the deployment and testing requirements, the content of artifacts may vary. They may contain deployment specifications such as scripts or templates such as YAML files, test data, test execution scripts, etc.

There are a couple of ways to publish artifacts in a build, such as making it available ...