1. CI/CD with Azure DevOps
For ASP.NET Core Projects

2. About Your Speaker Mitchel Sellers CEO @ IowaComputerGurus, Inc
11 year Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider, DNN MVP
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3. Agenda
Azure DevOps Concepts
Azure DevOps Costs
Our Goals

4. Azure DevOps Concepts - Boards
Full agile project management
Ability to flow-through issues
Create An Issue
Associate to a Commit/Branch
Automatically Associated to a Build
Automatically Associated to Deployment
Stakeholder accounts are free

5. Azure DevOps Concepts – Pipelines (Build)
Build Processes
Any language
Source repos: Azure DevOps, GitHub, etc.
Multiple steps & complex workflows supported
Build Location
Azure Hosted – In the Cloud
Local Hosted – On-Site
Artifact Publishing
Results for Consumption later
PR / Merging Builds

6. Build Example

7. Azure DevOps Concepts – Pipelines (Release)
Takes input of artifact
Automatic or manual
Branch limitations
Token Replacement
Approvals
Manual Approval
On Success of Prior
Delay/Scheduled
Set time possible

8. Release Example

9. Azure DevOps Concepts - Environments
Connector allowing local environments to be deployed to from Azure
Requires a Powershell script to run

10. Azure DevOps Service Costs

11. Our Goals Build in Azure Branching Strategy Releases
Self Contained Publish
Increment Version #
Retain Artifact
Branching Strategy
Main => Production
Development => Development
Releases
Development => Automatic
Production => Approvals

12. Helper Functions: Free!

13. .NET Core Project Changes
<PropertyGroup> <Version>0.0.0</Version> </PropertyGroup>

14. Creating our pipeline

18. 1 = Set Project Name
2 = Set Build (Recommend VS 2019)

20. Optional Step: Install Tools (Preview etc.)

23. $(MajorVersion).$(MinorVersion).$(rev:r)

25. Create the Release

36. Resources Azure DevOps: https://dev.azure.com
.NET Core Extensions: ergurus.dotnetcore-pipeline-tasks
My Blog: net-core-ci-cd-with-azure-devops