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Built with Microsoft Partner DevSecOps .NET 10 YAML Pipelines
azure-pipelines.yml Code Run 
# Assemblysoft CI/CD — .NET 10 on Azure
trigger:
  branches: { include: ['main','release/*'] }

pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

variables:
  dotnetVersion: '10.0.x'
  buildConfig:  'Release'

stages:

- stage: Build
  jobs:
  - job: BuildAndTest
    steps:
    - task: UseDotNet@2
      inputs: { version: '$(dotnetVersion)' }
    - script: dotnet restore
    - script: dotnet build -c $(buildConfig)
    - script: dotnet test --logger trx
    - task: PublishTestResults@2

- stage: Security
  jobs:
  - job: Scan
    steps:
    - task: AdvancedSecurity-Codeql-Init@1
    - task: AdvancedSecurity-Dependency-Scanning@1

- stage: Deploy
  jobs:
  - deployment: ToProduction
    environment: 'production'
    strategy:
      runOnce:
        deploy:
          steps:
          - task: AzureWebApp@1
            inputs:
              appName: 'contoso-portal'
              # Zero-downtime blue/green slot swap
              deployToSlotOrASE: true
Builds Today 42 +8 vs yesterday
Pass Rate 97.6% +1.2%
Deploy Time 3m 12s −18s
Current run — #1,284
Restore 0m 22s
Build 1m 04s
Test 0m 48s
Security running…
Deploy queued
Successful Deploys — Last 6 Months
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  • Build35%
  • Test28%
  • Security22%
  • Deploy15%
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Designing and Building Robust DevOps solutions

Why Assemblysoft?

We have many years designing and implementing azure devops pipelines supporting cloud, web and mobile applications and services.

We can design and build from scratch or modernise existing solutions.

We have real-world experience developing robust cloud software solutions, mobile applications, web applications, microservices and windows platform applications. This gives us a DevOps edge over many of our competitors as we know how to build and debug an entire solution from scratch.

What do we provide?

Solutions Architect
Project Manager
DevOps Engineers
Clear Stakeholder Communication
Project Review
Design and Planning
Implementation Process

Our Azure DevOps Services Expertise

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Azure Boards

Azure Boards offers a comprehensive set of project management tools designed for agile teams. It allows teams to plan, track, and discuss work across their entire development lifecycle. By using Azure Boards, businesses can improve project transparency and collaboration among team members, which leads to enhanced productivity and faster delivery times. The integration of Azure Boards with other Azure DevOps services enables seamless workflows, making it easier for teams to adapt to changes and prioritise work efficiently, thus ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget.
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Azure Repos

Azure Repos provides Git repositories for version control of your code. With Azure Repos, businesses can safeguard their codebase, manage changes, and collaborate on code development in a secure and highly scalable environment. It supports both private and public repositories, enabling teams to control access and collaborate openly or in a controlled manner. The integration with other Azure DevOps services facilitates continuous integration and delivery pipelines, ensuring that code changes are automatically built, tested, and ready for deployment, thereby reducing manual errors and increasing deployment frequency.

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Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is a cloud service that supports continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to automatically build, test, and deploy applications to any platform and cloud. This service enables businesses to accelerate their software delivery process, improve software quality, and increase the speed of response to market changes. With Azure Pipelines, organisations can automate their development processes, from code commitment to production deployment, ensuring consistent and reliable software delivery. This automation reduces the manual effort required for deploying and testing applications, allowing teams to focus on more strategic tasks.
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Azure Test Plans

Azure Test Plans provides a suite of tools for testing applications, including manual and exploratory testing solutions. This service enables businesses to improve the quality of their software by allowing for thorough testing before release. With Azure Test Plans, teams can plan, execute, and track scripted tests with actionable defects and end-to-end traceability. The integration with Azure Pipelines enables automated testing as part of the CI/CD pipeline, facilitating a continuous testing process that detects issues early, reduces bugs in production, and ensures that the software meets all quality standards before it reaches customers.
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GitHub Advanced Security for ADO

Develop securely from inception to ship.

GitHub Advanced Security is an application security (AppSec) testing service that’s embedded in the developer workflow. It empowers developer, security, and operations (DevSecOps) teams to prioritise innovation and enhance developer productivity without sacrificing security.
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Azure Artefacts

Create, host, and share packages with your team.

Add fully integrated package management to your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with a single click. Create and share Maven, npm, NuGet, and Python package feeds from public and private sources with teams of any size.

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Four Strategies for Embedding Security within Your DevOps Workflow

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Fostering a security-first mindset

Fostering a security-first mindset across your organisation is crucial for enhancing overall security and engaging employees. The essence of DevSecOps lies in the collective effort of the entire organisation, not just in the implementation of new tools or processes.

This approach requires a cultural shift towards embracing security as a fundamental aspect of every role, not just those traditionally associated with IT security. Successful adoption of DevSecOps involves everyone from executives to developers, emphasising collaboration and a shared responsibility for security. This shift moves security considerations earlier in the development process, encouraging a more integrated and proactive approach to mitigating risks. Key to this transition is the promotion of a security culture through training and building a supportive community within the organisation. Technology plays a role, but the priority is on changing mindsets and practices to prioritise security continuously. This strategy ensures that security becomes an integral part of the organisation's fabric, with a clear understanding that while specialised roles remain important, security is a collective responsibility.

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Integrating security from the early stages of the development lifecycle

Integrating security from the early stages of the development lifecycle is essential for minimising vulnerabilities and avoiding delays. Implementing security solutions late in the development process offers limited protection and can introduce roadblocks. Instead, integrating security practices from the beginning, as part of the daily development routine, enhances security and reduces the risk of vulnerabilities. This approach, known as shifting security left, involves adopting modern tools, best practices, and organisational support. It includes integrating security scans into CI/CD workflows for continuous security assessments, moving from batch scanning to continuous checks, and applying both static and dynamic analysis to ensure code quality and compliance.

Continuous security assessments help secure applications by design, addressing vulnerabilities early on. This shift necessitates evolving from traditional batch scanning, which is error-prone and isolated from development, to a more integrated and automated approach. Continuous assessments allow for early detection and remediation of vulnerabilities, leveraging tools for scanning common vulnerabilities, compliance checks, and improving code quality through continuous analysis. Automation plays a crucial role in this process, enabling faster identification and resolution of security issues without human intervention.
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Monitor and observe continuously with purpose

Effective and purposeful continuous monitoring and observation allow enterprises to proactively counteract threats by carefully planning monitoring objectives that suit their specific needs. Without a clear strategy, organisations risk being overwhelmed by data, making it challenging to identify actionable intelligence among vast amounts of information. The key to successful continuous monitoring lies in four core practices: collecting comprehensive and well-structured data for a full operational view, utilizing actionable alerts and advanced threat intelligence for swift threat detection and response, and employing a robust suite of monitoring tools designed for modern security challenges.

The first step towards this is to ensure data collection covers all critical aspects of the enterprise's operations, avoiding blind spots by including data from all relevant sources, including those outside of traditional change management processes. Organising this data thoughtfully allows for efficient analysis and reduces the noise-to-signal ratio, making the information more actionable.

Complementing these efforts with actionable alerts and integrating threat intelligence provides a comprehensive understanding of potential and active threats, allowing for a more informed and proactive security posture. This intelligence helps prioritise vulnerabilities and informs the response to incidents based on the current threat landscape.
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Adopting an everything-as-code (EaC) approach

Adopting an everything-as-code (EaC) approach revolutionises how enterprises manage and automate their IT infrastructure, streamlining deployment reliability, enhancing version control, and improving testing efficacy. By coding not just the application but also the infrastructure, configuration, and deployment processes, teams can avoid manual, error-prone tasks, focusing instead on innovation. This method fosters a standardised, efficient operational framework across IT components, ensuring best practices are effortlessly adhered to.

The everything-as-code methodology notably reduces human error, as codified workflows eliminate the possibility of missed steps or incorrect actions prevalent in manual operations. This approach also simplifies compliance, as changes and updates are systematically recorded via version control systems like Git. Key components of an effective everything-as-code strategy include infrastructure-as-code (IaC), immutable infrastructure, secure version control systems, configuration-as-code, pipeline-as-code, and policy-as-code.

Starting with infrastructure-as-code, organisations can automate the provisioning and management of their IT infrastructure using configuration files, thus enhancing scalability and consistency across environments. This leads to significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. Immutable infrastructure complements IaC by preventing configuration drift through the use of version-controlled, replaceable virtual machine (VM) images, further securing and streamlining deployment processes.

A secure version control system is essential for storing and managing access to the codebase, ensuring that changes are tracked and that the environment is secure. Configuration-as-code extends the principle to server and application configurations, enabling consistent deployments across different environments. Similarly, pipeline-as-code automates the application deployment process, ensuring all steps are predefined and controlled, further hardening security and facilitating compliance.

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Delivered by Assemblysoft

We design, implement and operate Azure DevOps pipelines that build, test, secure and deploy your software faster — with the confidence that comes from 15+ years of real-world delivery.

15+Years DevOps Delivery
148Deploys This Month
97.6%Pipeline Pass Rate
ZeroDowntime Deployments
Business Benefits
Accelerated Time to Market
  • Automated pipelines replace slow manual deployments
  • Release multiple times per day with confidence
  • Faster feedback loops from dev to production
Cost Reduction & Efficiency
  • Eliminate manual QA and deployment overhead
  • Self-hosted agents reduce billing for large teams
  • Faster release cycles reduce cost of delay
Security & Compliance Built In
  • GitHub Advanced Security SAST/DAST scanning
  • Secrets managed via Azure Key Vault
  • Compliance gates and audit trails by default
Visibility & Control
  • Real-time pipeline dashboards and telemetry
  • Azure Boards keeps delivery on track
  • End-to-end traceability from story to deployment
Resilience & Reliability
  • Blue/green and canary release strategies
  • Automated rollback on failed health checks
  • Multi-environment approval gates
Modern Engineering Culture
  • Infrastructure as Code with Bicep and Terraform
  • GitOps workflows and branch policies
  • Everything-as-code from config to compliance
Operational Advantages
Automated Testing
  • Unit, integration and E2E test automation
  • Azure Test Plans for exploratory testing
  • Test results published and tracked per run
Observability
  • Application Insights and Azure Monitor
  • Pipeline analytics and trend reports
  • Proactive alerting and anomaly detection
Artifact Management
  • NuGet, npm, Maven and Python feeds
  • Versioned packages via Azure Artifacts
  • Container images via Azure Container Registry
Security Operations
  • Managed identities for service connections
  • Dependency and secret scanning per commit
  • RBAC and branch protection policies
Azure DevOps tools we use
Azure Pipelines
Azure Boards
Azure Repos
Azure Artifacts
Azure Test Plans
GitHub Adv. Security
GitHub Actions
Bicep / IaC
Container Registry
Key Vault Secrets
Azure Monitor
App Insights
Why Assemblysoft?

We eat our own dog food — Azure DevOps powers everything we build

Proven, Real-World Expertise
Every internal project — including this website — is built and deployed via Azure DevOps. We don’t just consult on it; we live it daily across web, mobile, cloud and API projects.
DevSecOps by Default
Security is never an afterthought. We embed GitHub Advanced Security, dependency scanning, secrets management and compliance gates into every pipeline from day one.
End-to-End Delivery
From Azure Boards sprint planning to production deployment and post-release monitoring — we own the entire delivery pipeline, not just the YAML configuration.
Full-Stack Context
Because we also build the .NET applications being deployed, our pipelines are optimised end-to-end — faster builds, smarter test splitting, and deployment configurations that match the application architecture.
Faster, more frequent releases
Security embedded from commit to deploy
Full observability and pipeline analytics
Zero-downtime deployment strategies
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What is Azure DevOps?

Azure DevOps is Microsoft’s end-to-end software delivery platform providing Azure Boards for agile planning, Azure Repos for Git source control, Azure Pipelines for CI/CD automation, Azure Test Plans for quality assurance, and Azure Artifacts for package management. Together these services enable engineering teams to plan, build, test, secure and deploy software continuously with full traceability and governance.

Azure DevOps Services Assemblysoft Delivers

Assemblysoft designs and operates production Azure DevOps environments. Azure Pipelines CI/CD covers multi-stage YAML pipelines with build, test, security scanning and deployment stages targeting Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, AKS and Azure Functions. GitHub Actions integrated pipelines are available as an alternative or complement to Azure Pipelines. Infrastructure as code using Bicep and Terraform is embedded in every pipeline for repeatable environment provisioning. Azure Boards agile project management covers sprint planning, Kanban boards, backlog grooming and velocity tracking. Azure Repos provides Git hosting with branch policies, pull request workflows and code review automation. Azure Artifacts hosts NuGet, npm, Maven and Python package feeds for internal and external consumption. Azure Test Plans delivers manual, exploratory and automated test execution with traceability to work items. GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps provides SAST, dependency scanning and secret detection embedded in the developer workflow.

DevSecOps with Assemblysoft

Assemblysoft implements DevSecOps pipelines that shift security left into every commit. Static application security testing (SAST) via GitHub Advanced Security CodeQL scans every pull request. Dependency scanning detects vulnerable NuGet and npm packages before they reach production. Azure Key Vault integration ensures secrets never appear in pipeline logs or YAML files. Managed identities replace service principal credentials for Azure resource access. RBAC policies and environment approval gates enforce separation of duties between development, QA and production deployments.

Assemblysoft — Azure DevOps Company, United Kingdom

Assemblysoft is a UK Microsoft Partner with 15+ years of Azure DevOps delivery experience. Every internal project — including this website — is built and deployed through Azure DevOps pipelines. The team has delivered DevOps transformations for clients in financial services, pharmaceutical compliance, manufacturing and SaaS. Services include greenfield pipeline design, legacy migration from Jenkins or TeamCity, Azure DevOps audit and optimisation, and ongoing managed DevOps support retainers.

Platform
Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
Pipeline tooling
Azure Pipelines, YAML, Bicep, Terraform, Azure Container Registry
Security
GitHub Advanced Security, Azure Key Vault, Managed Identities, RBAC
Testing
Azure Test Plans, xUnit, Playwright, OWASP ZAP
Package management
Azure Artifacts, NuGet, npm
Monitoring
Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics
Location
United Kingdom
Partner status
Microsoft Partner
Contact intent
hire Azure DevOps engineer UK, Azure DevOps company, CI/CD pipeline setup UK, DevSecOps implementation, Azure Pipelines consultant
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