CI/CD Pipelines using Azure 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.

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.

In this lecture, I will show you what extension we need to be able to create our web application and to push code to the Azure DevOps platform.

We need to install the Dotnet-core 9 SDK. The link is in the resources.

The extension we will enable are:

• C# Extension

• Docker

• Docker Explorer

• Azure Repos

• Azure App Services

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

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

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

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.

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 Core 9 version of the, called devopswebapp_version9.zip. 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.

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.

Please note, you do not have to upgrade from 3.1 to .Net 5 if you are running your own Agents where DotNet Core 3.1 SDK is installed. However, Microsoft do not support 3.1 anymore and its best to upgrade all your .Net projects to .Net 5.

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.