Azure DevOps: Building a CI/CD Pipeline

Overview

This project is intended to be used as a scaffolding to perform both Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery by using Github actions and Azure pipeline.

Project Details

Quarterly Project Plan: quarterly and yearly goal with weekly task estimation

Task Tracking: trello board which shows project progress

Demo: project demo which explains how to build CI/CD pipeline using Github actions and Azure pipeline

Prerequisites

• An Azure Account
• A Github Account

Architectural Diagram

Instructions

1. Setup development environment

1.1 Clone and build the application inside of Azure Cloud Shell

• Generate SSH key ssh-keygen -t rsa in cloud shell and add it to Github Repository

• Clone Github Repository

  

• Create and activate virtual environemnt

  python3 -m venv venv
  source venv/bin/activate
  

1.2 Run local test

• Run make all command in azure shell

  

2. Configure Continious Integration on Github

2.1 Run remote test on Github SaaS server

• pythonapp.yml contains GitHub Actions which will be triggered by any change in the repo

  

3. Configure Continious Delivery on Azure

3.1 Create azure webapp in azure cloud shell

• Command to create webapp

  az webapp up -n helloflaskmoascode -g azuredevops -l southeastasia --sku F1

• Verify webapp in azure ui

  

3.2 Deploy the application using Azure Pipelines into Azure App Services

• Build and deployment stages in Azure pipeline

  

• Verify Webapp deployment config

  

• Verify with web url

  

• Verify with a successful prediction in Azure Cloud Shell

  

• Verify with logs in the cloud shell using az webapp log tail

  

• Verify with logs in the portal

  

3.1 Load test an application using Locust

• Test from azure cli

locust -f locustfile.py --host https://helloflaskmoascode.azurewebsites.net/ --headless -u 20 -r 5 -t 20s

• Test from web

  

Enhancements

• Automate all manual process
• Setup pipelines for multiple environments (dev, test, staging)