Azure pipeline

Links

• Azure Pipelines documentation
• Use approvals and gates to control your deployment

Steps of a release

1. Build the software with a pipeline
   • validate product quality (unit tests, SonarCloud)
2. Deploy the software
   • validate runtime stability (compare telemetry with previous version)
3. Release the feature
   • validate feature usage

Definitions

Term	Definition
Release pipeline definition	steps to execute to get the artefacts, install and validate the software. template to run a release.
Release agent	the one who execute the tasks defined in the release pipeline definition. it is the same agent as the one used for the build.
Artifact	item from a git repository or a build pipeline
Stages	steps to deploy and validate a software
Tasks	subparts of a stage
Job	can execute a set of tasks. a job runs on a agent or can be manually ran.

Release variables

• Predefined variables

YAML

stages: - stage: CI displayName: CI stage # remove implicite depency on the previous stage, the stages will run in parallel dependsOn: [] jobs: - job: ci_job_1 variables: MyVar: 'CI' steps: - bash: echo "We are on CI" - task: PowerShell@2 displayName: 'PowerShell Script' inputs: targetType: filePath filePath: './$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/Folder/Script.ps1' arguments: '-Arg1 "$(MyVar)"' # disable the task enabled: false - stage: DEMO displayName: DEMO stage dependsOn: [] jobs: # use deployment instead of job, with environment and strategy to use the approval mechanism - deployment: copy_prod_to_demo environment: DEMO variables: MyVar: 'DEMO' strategy: runOnce: deploy: steps: - bash: echo "We are on DEMO" - task: PowerShell@2 displayName: 'PowerShell Script' inputs: targetType: filePath filePath: './$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/Folder/Script.ps1' arguments: '-Arg1 "$(MyVar)"' enabled: false