We have been developing an Angular application on Azure DevOps. My company wants to have the app running on another cloud service. Can anyone tell me: Can we create a pipeline that will deploy the production version of our application from build in Azure to this other cloud service? What are the pitfalls or potential obstacles? Is anyone doing it already that could speak to it from your experience? Thanks in advance.
If you want to deploy Angular application on Azure DevOps to Azure App Service via Azure Pipelines, you could follow below steps.
Create a build pipeline, add a npm task to install the npm packages required by the Angular application
use npm task to build the application and produce the assets to be published on the web server
Add a Publish Build Artifact task that generates the artifacts which will be provided later on as an input to release definition
The last step is to add a CD pipeline which will deploy the artifacts created by the build to the Azure Web App by using this Azure App Service Deploy task. See this tutorial for details.
If want to deploy to other cloud service, this doc provides the system-defined tasks, you could review it to find if there are existing available tasks. If not, you may need to develop a custom pipelines task extension or find if there are existing extensions in the Azure DevOps Marketplace.
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I'm looking for an automated way for adding & deploying SPFX solution package (*.sppkg) into the SharePoint 2019 (NOT online) app catalog. This is cause and doing the deploying using azure devops (CI/CD) release pipeline.
I found those two below tasks for adding this package:
The first one worked fine in just adding the file to the app catalog but not deploying it, so I had to do it manually.
The second task has the option to write PnP script against SharePoint, but the problem with me is that most of the scripts i found are for SharePoint Online not on premise.
Appreciate your support if you had such situation and got it solved using PnP or something else.
Microsoft's official documentation describes an approach to continuous deployment using Azure DevOps. You can click Implement Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment using Azure DevOps for detailed information. There is no need to write PNP scripts using this method.
Setting up Azure DevOps for Continuous Deployments with a SharePoint
Framework solution requires the following steps:
Creating the Release Definition
Linking the Build Artifact
Creating the Environment
Installing NodeJS
Installing the CLI for Microsoft 365
Connecting to the App Catalog
Adding the Solution Package to the App Catalog
Deploying the Application
Setting the Variables for the Environment
If you just want to use Azure DevOps CD and don't want to use CI, you can skip the second step and upload your build artifacts directly to the repository, and then use them in the release pipeline.
There are some basic scenarion for using pipelines:
You use cloud pipeline (azure, github, etc) with their abilities and their purpuse.
You create own environment with self-hosted pipelines
You add own runner (pipeline agent) to your cloud (azure) environment
So, azure allows you to add own pipeline agent to environment. For example, self-hosting windows agent.
So, I think solution in your case will be:
Install self-hosted agent
Configure agent environment - installing SharePointPnPPowerShell2019
Add agent to your azure environment
Add step to deploy your solution into pipline with using self-hosted agent
This scenario allows you to deploy sppkg solutions without publish your app catalog to internet, because your self-hosted agent will be in the save network as your sharepoint farm.
Azure pipeline deploy steps allow to run powershell on target machines
Prerequisites This task uses Windows Remote Management (WinRM) to
access on-premises physical computers or virtual computers that are
domain-joined or workgroup-joined.
I basically want to deploy(CICD) a React App(simple create-react-app) present in GitHub to Azure Webapp using Jenkins and TerraForm. I am in search of step by step process to do this.
I can't use the Azure DevOps platform since it is restricted in the organization I work.
Here is a tutorial for Deploy to Azure App Service with Jenkins and the Azure CLI might help.
But considering your React App already present in GitHub, there is a easier choice to deploy, which is using Git Action.
Create an App Service on portal.
Navigate to Deployment Center, better to use the Preview version.
Configure the CI/CD:
Go to your GitHub and see the Action logs, which is more clear than portal:
I am learning Azure. If I developed a Web API project. How exactly is deployed in real-time to Azure App Service? I do saw lot of video where APIs are deployed to Azure App Services. is the way we do in real development? or We use ARM templates? usually,the portal login details are not shared to developer? Once deploy to Azure App Service, How we use Azure DevOps to make CI/CD for the same. Please help/guide with any article/video/tutorial.
or Simply guide how we plan any web app or API from development to Production deployment using Azure App Services and Azure DevOps?
Thanks in Advance for any help.
First thing you need to do is maintain GitHub repository.Push all your code inside it !
Now create a web app in Azure under App service !
Once it is deployed you have to deploy the code to it from GitHub.
There are 2 ways to do it from GitHub to maintain CI Cd pipelines.
One way is you use GitHub actions under deployment center to deploy it or other way is create azure DevOps free account and Import GitHub repository there and then push it in Web App.
Both have some end results.
Now about ci cd pipelines anytime you will make changes to code on respective chosen way the code can be seen working in live app.
This all is concept of ci cd pipelines.
I pushed my .net core function application using visual studio and now setting up release pipeline. I can publish and execute the application just fine and it works great on the Azure portal. However when I see the builds for releases in azure-devOps that slot fails with the following error.
2019-06-19T23:21:33.3543380Z ##[error]Error: Deployment of msBuild generated package is not supported. Change package format or use Azure App Service Deploy task. D:\a\r1\a\_...AVFunctionCore.zip
I am not sure where I need to check in my setup to even start diagnosing the issue.
Here are the pipeline steps.
I create a new stage and then select a template of type (Azure app service deployment)
Under tasks
App type is Function App on Windows
Give the app name, resource group , give the slot and
package folder as
$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/**/AVFunctionCore.zip
Everything else on this is left as default.
Azure function app deploy and release pipeline error
According to the error message:
Deployment of msBuild generated package is not supported. Change
package format or use Azure App Service Deploy task.
It seems you are not using the correct task to publish the generated package. Since the generated package is .zip, you can try the suggestion as error message said use Azure App Service Deploy task.
Azure App Service Deploy task:
Use this task in a build or release pipeline to deploy to a range of
App Services on Azure. The task works on cross-platform agents running
Windows, Linux, or Mac and uses several different underlying
deployment technologies.
The task works for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, PHP, Java, Python, Go, and
Node.js based web applications.
The task can be used to deploy to a range of Azure App Services such
as:
Web Apps on both Windows and Linux
Web Apps for Containers Function
Apps on both Windows and Linux
Function Apps for Containers
WebJobs
Apps configured under Azure App Service Environments
Check this blog Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions and Continuous Integration with VSTS for some more details.
Hope this helps.
I get predefined pipeline from VS integration. So for those you have the same case:
In GUI/Classic mode Release page -> edit pipeline
Edit task in stage section (this is responsible for deploying)
Replace Azure Web App task with Azure App Service deploy
I have more than one project (web api + azure function) in my solution. For the web app I used the zip file, but for the azure function to work I needed to publish the whole folder.
Azure Function
Package or folder:
$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/_Backend/drop
Web Api
Package or folder:
$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/_Backend/drop/ClientAPI.zip
I have nodejs app. Can I deploy it to azure app service without VS or other big IDE?
So, I want an easy way to select branch what I need push it to azure and run default command for nodejs.
I'm stuck with it, because all of solution it is use VS.
You can deploy to azure app service by using Azure App Service Deployment step/task. For example:
Create a build definition
Add related step/task to build your project
Add Azure App Service Deployment step/task (Can publish using Web Deploy or upload files directly)
Select Triggers tab and enable Continuous Integration
Specify repository and branch filters
After that, the build will be triggered if you push changes to target branch.
Related article: Define a continuous integration build for your Node.js app
Regarding run command for nodejs, you can refer to this thread by using kudu API: Include node modules in azure deployment via VSTS.
This can be done. Take a look at the build and release functionality in Visual Studio Team Services.
With VSTS Build, you can trigger a build and push to an Azure Web App automatically on a Git check-in for a particular branch, or you can manually trigger the build and push.
Take a look at the Azure App Service Deploy task in VSTS build.
Note that since VSTS is pulling from your Git repo, it doesn't matter what IDE you use to actually develop your app with.
Also, VSTS is free for small teams and a single deployment pipeline.