CI/CD Sample using .NET Core and Terraform with Azure AppServices

Azure DevOps Project:

https://dev.azure.com/mertsenel/Infrastructure-as-Code-Samples

Credits:

The original source code repository used for this project can be found at: https://github.com/Microsoft/PartsUnlimited

The Initial CI/CD Structure was adopted from below Azure DevOps Lab: https://github.com/Microsoft/azuredevopslabs/tree/master/labs/vstsextend/terraform/

Builds

https://dev.azure.com/mertsenel/Infrastructure-as-Code-Samples/_build

Releases

https://dev.azure.com/mertsenel/Infrastructure-as-Code-Samples/_release

Improvements/Additions:

Project:

• Added Application Insights resource to the Terraform code to enable Continous Monitoring for the project.

Azure DevOps Pipelines:

Continous Integration

• Converted GUI based Build Pipeline to YAML based build pipeline so it can be maintained with the project repository.
• Build triggers configured to target push and Pull Request CI builds in order to use as status checks for safe contribution, adhering to Git flow.

Continous Deployment

• Enabled Continous Deployment for both Pull Request and Push(to master and release branches) to Dev environment.
  • This environment and Release stage can later be used to run integration tests before promoting deployment to higher stages.
• Added Continous Monitoring to the App Service via Application Insights with Release Pipeline task
• Modified Release Pipeline to have Dev, Test, Staging & Production to promote DevOps practices.
  • Have stage specific variables to use same code with various configurations.
  • Management of Terraform state file via appending statefile name with stage name in pipeline.

Code Management / Github

• Enabled master branch protection in GitHub repository with status checks requirement for safe contribution.