Develop deployment scripts and templates
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In this post, I will share my study notes that I took while preparing for the exam Azure AZ400 “Develop deployment scripts and templates”.
Recommend a deployment solution (e.g. GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
Azure DevOps has a visual classic editor that allows configuring deployment stages.
A great walkthrough into its features is in this lab:
Layout
Each stage has two configurable menus:
- pre-deployment conditions
- post-deployment conditions
Pre-deployment conditions allow defining triggers, approvals or gates.
Triggers come with three options:
Approvals allow defining who should manually approve a deployment and how long should be possible to wait for approval before discarding the deployment.
Gates allows to automatically checks for conditions that would block a deployment.
The equivalent of Azure DevOps releases in the GitHub world is Actions.
Retention
The following retention policies are available in Azure DevOps in your Project settings:
Pipeline — Set how long to keep artifacts, symbols, attachments, runs, and pull request runs.
Release (classic) — Set whether to save builds and view the default and maximum retention settings.
Test — Set how long to keep automated and…
