README.md

DevOps Columbus Azure Demo

This is simply a demo repository that contains everything necessary for speaking at the DevOps Columbus user group. You can find the presentation here.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2017
  • PC preferrable because there are more built-in features for free
• Azure account with subscription setup
• Install Azure CLI 2.0
  • PC or Mac is fine

Steps

1. Create new solution and project
2. Publish to Azure
3. Store code in source control (GitHub, BitBucket, VSTS)
4. Setup continuous deployment via Azure portal
   • You can do this in Visual Studio as well
5. Download resource template and store in source control
6. Open terminal or command prompt and login to Azure (az login)
   • follow steps to login properly
7. Ensure directory is set to template file location
8. Test resource template and parameters by executing a deployment
   • az group deployment create --name {{Name of deployment}} --resource-group {{Resource Group Name}} --template-file template.json --parameters parameters.json
9. Witness the beauty/power of the resource templates
   1. In the Azure Portal, manually add a new Web App (follow prompts and wait until completed)
   2. In the terminal/command prompt, review the resources for the new one az resource list
   3. Run step 8 again, but with the property --mode Complete
      • The default is --mode incremental
   4. Run step ii and notice that the resource that was created is gone!

Resources

• Create and deploy to Azure via Visual Studio 2017
• Enabling continuous deployment
• Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) builds and releases
• Get existing resource template
• Deploy resource template
• Azure CLI command reference