DevOps Classroom Series (Evg) – 12/Dec/2021

Azure DevOps Pipeline for .net projects

• Lets try to understand how to build a .net project
• Create a windows 2016 server
• Now Download Visual Studio build tools depending on which version your organization is using Refer Here
• Install the build tools and git for windows
• Install nuget cli using chocolatey choco install nuget.commandline
• Restart the server
• Refer Here for the sample dotnet code
• Execute the following commands after launching visual studio Developer Command prompt

cd <project directory>
nuget restore WelcomeApplication.sln
msbuild -t:Rebuild -p:Configuration=Release WelcomeApplication.sln

• Now lets create an Azure Pipeline for Asp.net Project
• The Azure-Pipelines.yml looks as shown below

# ASP.NET
# Build and test ASP.NET projects.
# Add steps that publish symbols, save build artifacts, deploy, and more:
# https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/apps/aspnet/build-aspnet-4

trigger:
- main

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

variables:
  solution: '**/*.sln'
  buildPlatform: 'Any CPU'
  buildConfiguration: 'Release'

steps:
- task: NuGetToolInstaller@1

- task: NuGetCommand@2
  inputs:
    restoreSolution: '$(solution)'

- task: VSBuild@1
  inputs:
    solution: '$(solution)'
    msbuildArgs: '/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)"'
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'

- task: VSTest@2
  inputs:
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'

• Refer Here for the changeset containing azure pipelines for .net code

• Refer Here for the articles which show how to build and release on different ecosystems

AWS CI CD Engine

• Refer below for the services
• Refer Here
• Refer Here for the java example
• Other CI/CD Tools
  • Bamboo Refer Here

Actvities

• Try to take open source projects and build ci/cd pipelines
  • Open Mrs Refer Here
  • Shopizer Refer Here
  • Nop Commerce Refer Here

Next Steps:

• Git Branching Strategy
• Git Hub Pull Requests
• Git Hooks/GitHub Webhooks
• Git Submodules
• GIt statsh
• Git Tags