CI/CD Pipelines using Azure DevOps

Testing your knowledge on DevOps

DevOps Tools:

• Azure DevOps Platform

• Development Environment Using Visual Studio Code

• Git

• Microsoft Azure Portal

• Docker

• Azure Repos

• Testing Tools

This lecture is a quick introduction to the Azure DevOps platform. I also take you into the Azure DevOps platform and talk briefly about all its capabilities.

This lecture is a quick introduction to our development tool we will use in this course, called Visual Studio Code. I also take you into the user interface and talk briefly about all its capabilities.

This lecture is a quick introduction to GIT that we will use as our local version control repository.

This lecture is a quick introduction to Docker and what we will use with Docker to deploy our web application to the Azure Cloud Services.

This lecture is a quick introduction to Azure Repos Git, our remote central source control repository. I also take you into the Azure DevOps platform to show you the Azure Repos capabilities.

In this lecture, we talk briefly about unit testing and other automated testing required for our Azure DevOps pipelines.

Testing knowledge on DevOps Tools and Azure

In this lecture, we discuss all the tools and platforms we need to be able to configure our CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps.

This is a practical section, and you will need access to a Windows PC and the internet.

In this lecture, I take you through a step by step process on how to install Visual Studio Code. The link to Visual Studio Code is in the resources.

This lecture will cover the branching strategy and the installation of the Git software.

Test your knowledge on branching and Git

In this lecture, we talk about automated testing and tools that we will use in this course.

Knowledge on Automated Testing

An introduction to DevSecOps concepts and how we would set up security on the Azure DevOps platform

Testing your knowledge on DevSecOps

We will talk about the Azure Service needed and what demonstration we will do in this section of the course.

This is a demonstration video on how to set up your Microsoft Azure account. the link to Microsoft Azure is in the resources.

We will also create a storage account on Azure including the Azure Container Registry.

In this demonstration, I show you where to go to create your Azure DevOps account, then start our first project on the platform.

Testing your knowledge on Azure Cloud Platform

In this lecture, we discuss the development technology stack and all the labs that will follow I this section.

In this lab, we will create the initial ASP.NET Core web application using Visual Studio Code. NOTE, I added am additional ZIP file for the .NET 5 version of the. This should compile. Always delete the OBJ and BIN before building or checking in the source code.

Then we will upload the web application to the Azure Cloud Service directly from Visual Studio Code. The source code for this lab is in the resources. You can simply download it, unzip and run the code in VSCode.

In this lab, I will take you through all the steps I made to add unit tests to our project. This is a new project, so please download the new zip file from this lab only.

In this part of the Lab, I demonstrate how to add Docker Files to your project.

In this lab, I show you have to create branches on Git for your local source control repository. Then we push the code to Azure Repos Git on the Azure DevOps platform.

Knowledge of branching and committing code.

In this lecture, we discussed the activities that we need to perform in this section of the course, including all the labs that are available in this section.

In this part of the Lab, we will cover security on the Azure DevOps platform. I will demonstrate how to create teams, users and permission settings.

I will demonstrate how to create service connections between Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud Service, called Azure Resource Manager.

I am demonstrating how to create deployment groups, agent pool and agent machines.

In this Lab, I am demonstrating how to build a pipeline on the Azure DevOps platform to restore, build, test our project.

Hi all,

There is currently an issue that Microsoft changed their policy to run Azure Hosted Agents on Azure DevOps. The way to get around this is to install a self-hosted Agent on your PC and run the pipelines remotely.

There might be content in here that is not covered yet, but please come back to this if you need to install an Self-Hosted Agent. Your pipelines will run normally if you point to use th Default Agent as explained in this lecture.

In this lab, I demonstrate how to configure the pipeline to push the Docker Image to the Azure Container Registry.

In this lab, I will demonstrate how to add an Azure App Service on the Azure Cloud platform. We need this to deploy our web application.

In this lecture, I introduce you to YAML, what it is and how we can use it within a DevOps pipeline.

In this video, I demonstrate how to create a YAML file and push to the Azure Repos Git repository.

In this video, I demonstrate how to add the YAML file to a DevOps pipeline and execute the YAML instructions

In this lab, I will demonstrate how a quick code change can be fully automated and deployed to the development environment by adding triggers to the DevOps pipelines on Azure DevOps.

Testing your knowledge on CI Pipelines on Azure DevOps

In this lecture, we cover the environments needed for deployments, the Azure Release Process and deployment gates.

In this lecture, I quickly discuss the Labs that we will cover in this section.

In this lab, we will configure our Release Pipeline on Azure DevOps to push the Docker Image to the QA Azure Container Registry.

In this lab, we will create an Azure App Service for the QA environment.

In this lab, I will demonstrate how to use variables in a task within your pipeline.

In this lab, I explain the retention policies, options available and history for reporting purposes.

In this lab, I will first explain how to set up release schedules, creating release triggers and demonstrate how to set up pre-deployment and post-deployment conditions. I also explain how to use gates on the release pipeline.

In this lab, we will finally deploy our web application the QA environment on the Azure Cloud using the Release pipeline on Azure DevOps.

Testing your knowledge on CD/Release Pipeline on Azure DevOps

In this lecture, we cover the following items:

• What is Infrastructure as Code?

• Infrastructure as Code Tools

• The Tools in following Labs: Chef, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell and Python

In this lecture, I introduce you to Chef and cover the following items:

• Chef and DevOps

• Chef Components

• Additional Tools: Chef Infra, Chef Habitat, Chef InSpec an Chef Automate

• Sample Chef Architecture

• Sample of a Chef Recipe

In this lecture, we cover the following:

• What is Terraform

• Terraform Configuration

• Sample Terraform Config File

In this lab, I will run through a demonstration to create a resource group on the Azure platform using Bash on Azure CLI.

In this lecture, we cover the following:

• What is Ansible?

• What Ansible Manages

• Inventories

• What is a Playbook?

• Sample Playbook

In this lab, I demonstrate how to write a PowerShell script and then also how to add a script to an Azure DevOps pipeline.

In this lecture, we cover the following:

• Python

• Demo on PyCharm how Python code loos like

• Demo how to ad Python script on the Azure DevOps platform

Testing your knowledge on Infrastructure as Code

I am currently working on adding additional lectures to this course. This will include lectures on the following subjects

• Branching

  • End-to-end branching using Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Code

  • Using Team Explorer on Visual Studio Community Edition 2019

• Release Pipelines

  • Configuration - Using variable groups and variable substitution

  • Using advance pre-conditions before release to QA, UAT or Production

  • Versioning using Build Id

• AWS CloudFormation

  • Structure of a CloudFormation YAML file

  • How to Release to AWS via Azure DevOps using CloudFormation.

Find the YAML file example in this resource attached.

Th parameter YAML file is attached to this lecture as a resource.

This lecture I demo how to use templates on your YAML files. The azure-pipelines.yml and template.yml is attach to this lecture.

In this lecture, I explain the next few lectures and what we will create on the Azure DevOps platform using YAML files.

In this lecture, I explain and demo what YAML code is required to Build, Test and Package  .Net Web App.

In this lecture, I demo the Terraform scripts needed to using the IaC (Infrastructure as Code) method to create Azure App Service Plan and Azure App Service

Please note, attach use the .NET8 version of the code, because the .Net 3 and .Net 5 is not supported.

In this lecture, I show you all files and project needed on the Azure Repos repository. Attach find the complete project in a ZIP file format on the resources of this lecture.

In this final lab of  this section, I demo the release pipeline and show a full demonstration of how the release runs and the end results on the Azure portal. Resources of the project is in the previous lecture uploaded as a ZIP file.