Dependency Management

• Component based development is common
• Azure Artifacts is the Azure solution for artifacts
• Not all software is written by a single team

• Componentization can be done via source code or as a package

• Elements of DM strategy

• Standardization
• Package formats and sources
• Versioning

Packages

• Mechanism to create, share and consume code and components
• Contains compiled code with metadata content for consuming it

Packages feeds

• Centralized storage of package artifacts
• Also known as package repositories or package registry
• Public feeds
• nuget.org
• npmjs.org
• pypi.org
• dockerhub
• Private feeds
• MyGet
• Azure Container Registry
• Azure Artifacts
• Self-hosted solution
• Package (feed) managers: A way to search, push, pull, etc
• nuget: .NET artifacts
• npm: Node.js modules
• python: python scripts
• maven: java
• docker: container images