Setup Azure CI/CD Pipelines using Visual Studio

Introduction

Today, we are going to see how to configure Azure DevOps CI/CD and setup Azure Pipeline using Visual Studio.

Not spending the time on what is Azure DevOps and its feature, we are directly moving to CI/CD. How can we configure this using Visual Studio? We will see this step by step. Once we set up the Azure Pipeline, then on each check-in, it will build the application and deploy the changes on App Service.

In this article, we will see how to configure the CI/CD for a single project in one solution. In the next article, we will see how to configure the CI/CD for multiple projects in one solution.

To know about Azure DevOps and its other features, you can refer to the below blog:

• Introducing Azure DevOps

Prerequisites

For configuring the Azure DevOps CI/CD, you need the following tools:

1. Azure DevOps account
2. Azure Portal Account
3. Visual Studio 2012+ (in my example, I am using VS 2019)

Steps

We will see how to configure CI/CD and setup Azure Pipeline using Azure DevOps.

Step 1

Create a new project by using the Azure DevOps account. I am using Team Foundation version control, but you can use Git too.

Step 2

Configure the newly created project in Visual Studio source control on your local system.

Step 3

Create a new project with a solution in Visual Studio and add this in DevOps Source Control, then check-in the changes.

Step 4

Setup Azure Pipelines under the publish settings of your solution.

Step 5

Wait for a few mins and then go the pipelines under Azure DevOps. You will see a new Pipeline created and the build of the project has started.

Step 6

Check the Deployment Center on the Azure portal for your App Service, for which you have set up the Azure Pipeline in step 4.

Step 7

If there is no error in the build, then after some time, your build has succeeded. It is taking a few minutes. In my example, it takes up to 1min 21 sec.

Step 8

As the build succeeds, the new release would be created and started pushing the release changes on App service.

Step 9

Check the App by using URL and you will see the application has deployed.

Step 10

Change anything in the application, check-in the changes and see Azure DevOps will build the solution and release the changes.

Note

We can see all Releases under Deployment Center on Azure Portal.

In the next article, we will see how to configure the CI/CD for multiple projects in one solution.