Azure pipeline

Links

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

Definitions

Term	Definition
Artifact	item from a git repository or a build pipeline
Stages	steps to deploy and validate a software a stage contains jobs
Job	subparts of a stage, contains tasks to execute listed as steps a job runs on a agent or can be manually ran
Tasks	subparts of a job, those are the concreate action to execute
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

Release variables

• Predefined variables

YAML

Links

• Approvals in environments with multi-stage YAML pipelines
• Template types & usage

Exemple

# do not trigger the pipeline on events trigger: none parameters: - name: myStepList type: stepList default: - bash: echo "We are on $(MyVar)" stages: - stage: CI displayName: CI stage # remove implicite depency on the previous stage, the stages will run in parallel dependsOn: [] jobs: - job: ci_job variables: MyVar: 'CI' steps: - bash: echo "We are on CI" - task: PowerShell@2 displayName: 'PowerShell Script' inputs: targetType: filePath filePath: './$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/Folder/Script.ps1' arguments: '-Arg1 "$(MyVar)"' # disable the task enabled: false - stage: DEMO displayName: DEMO stage dependsOn: [] jobs: # use deployment job with environment and strategy to use the approval mechanism - deployment: demo_job environment: DEMO variables: MyVar: 'DEMO' strategy: runOnce: deploy: steps: ${{ parameters.myStepList }}

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