Deploy multiple app services to azure cloud from one azuredevops repository

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Hello,

I'm looking for a good solution that would allow to deploy app from azure devops repo to azure cloud but multiple times like e.g. 5 resource groups with 1 app each and the apps are the same for now, in the future they might have some specific params of deployment. Also I want all the apps to be redeployed on completed build pipeline (basically master branch with new pullrequest that went successfully). Is that possible? We don't want to deploy all the apps manually when something new goes into master branch. Just trigger a script or whatever and make it update the apps automatically. What's a good approach here?

What I have tried:

I've tried looking for an azure template configuration to create app service with CI/CD already set up to track devops repo for master branch changes but no go. That'd be to achieve something similar to Deployment Center in App Service on Azure Portal when you setup Azure Devops CI/CD.

Posted 28-Jan-20 23:57pm

Member 14637786

Updated 29-Jan-20 2:06am

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer 1 · 2020-01-29T02:08:00

Quote:
5 resource groups with 1 app each and the apps are the same for now, in the future they might have some specific params of deployment.

I recommend that you use DevOps tools to automate this. Infrastructure as Code is one big term that comes to mind when this approach needs to be taken care of.

Quote:
azure template configuration to create app service with CI/CD already set up to track devops repo

If you want to create a new resource, then Azure Resource Manager Templates would work. If you want to update the existing web application, then this might not be a good solution. Since a solution redeployment is not what you are looking for.

I authored a blog post to discuss this topic, and how it can help you to write reusable infrastructure definitions, read it here[^].

Quote:
Just trigger a script or whatever and make it update the apps automatically. What's a good approach here?

It depends on how you are deploying the application. Is the application a Docker image? If so, you can use the web hooks to trigger an update on the production.

For other cases, such as monolith, you can use DevOps tools like GitLab Auto DevOps or Azure DevOps release pipelines to update the application on the cloud.

Check out this documentation, it gives an overview of this scenario: Release pipelines - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Docs[^]