Category: CI/CD

Setup Continuous Deployment for Application with Kubernetes and Argo CD

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Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It follows the GitOps pattern of using git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state. With ArgoCD, application deployments can be automated and updates to application can be made at the simple git commit events without the need of any complicated Continuous Integration and/or Deployment Pipelines.

This is our first post in the series of blog post on deploying and managing application with Kubernetes and Argo CD. You can find the series index here.

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Declarative GitOps Continuous Deployment for Application with Kubernetes, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize and Kind – Index

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Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes based application manifests. You can define Kubernetes manifests in plain text yaml files, or use package managers like Helm, or use configuration management tools like Kustomize, JSonnet, etc. in a declarative way.

Argo CD brings everything together by using basic concept of GitOps – Application definitions, configurations, and environments should be declarative and version controlled in a Git repository. Using Argo CD to deploy Kubernetes manifests, you can automate application lifecycle management and enable continuous deployment and delivery in very simple steps. You also do not need to define any CI/CD pipelines for it.

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Using Terraform to define Azure DevOps Variables and Build Pipeline

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This is the 5th post in the series of blog posts on managing Azure DevOps using the Terraform. You can find the series index here. In this blog post, we’ll learn to define variables and variable groups within the Azure DevOps as well as creating a Build pipeline, both using Terraform. We’ll be building onto our previous code where we ended up creating a git repository in the Azure DevOps Project. Although going through previous posts is not required to understand the concepts explained here, but its good to have a look because we’ll be referring parts of code from previous posts.

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Add manual approvers for release stages in Multi Stage Pipelines in Azure DevOps

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In most of the Organizations, One would need certain approvals before a build can be promoted to one of the release environments. In Azure DevOps, it has always been easy to configure the approvers by configuring the pre-deployment settings in the stage. However, it was not possible to do it for the YAML based pipelines up until now. As we discussed in our previous blog post on how to write multi stage pipelines, we also discussed about the environments. Environments are a very new feature and Read More »

Create Multi Stage YAML CI/CD pipeline for deploying database changes using Maven, Liquibase and Azure DevOps

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In our previous series of blog posts, we discussed what is Liquibase and how we can leverage Liquibase to manage database changes and associated functionality. We have seen and discussed various commands and attributes available. However we have not discussed putting everything together and creating a multi stage pipeline using some sort of CI/CD tool like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TeamCity etc. The focus of this blog post will be to create a multi stage yaml pipeline for deploying database changes using Maven, Liquibase and Azure DevOps. The target environment will be Azure PostgreSQL for this post’s purposes, but it can be any target database in accordance with your needs.
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Create Multi Stage Pipelines with YAML in Azure DevOps

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Until recently, Azure DevOps had offered separate build and release views for its users. This was a little different from pipeline features in other CI/CD tools like Jenkins, where if you build a pipeline, it is a single unified experience. With recent update, they have released unified experience for the Multi Stage Pipelines. Now one can use a unified YAML experience and configure Azure DevOps pipelines to do CI, CD, or CI and CD together. This not only allows to control the build configuration as part of the source code but releases as well. In this blog post, we are going to create and work with the same.
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Working with Azure DevOps Pipelines using Command line

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One of the new exciting features introduced in Azure DevOps updates is the introduction of ‘az pipelines’ command group. Microsoft has been putting some efforts in writing YAML based pipelines over the last few months and has also recently introduced the ability to do Continuous Integration or Release or define both in one single pipeline. Since Azure Pipelines can now be managed at the command line, you can use it to further introduce the automation that you have created for your organization. In this blog post, we’ll learn how to use ‘az pipelines’ commands to define, initiate and manage Azure pipelines at the command line.
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Schedule Azure DevOps Pipelines using Cron Syntax

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Azure DevOps has always provided the facility of defining Scheduled pipelines using UI Editor. With the push of Sprint 137, this functionality is now moved to the Cron Syntax. (And not Cron-like Syntax :)) Not only the cron syntax is more prominent in the Software world, it also provides more granularity than the UI editor. Also, you can define multiple schedules simultaneously for a single pipelines, allowing you even more flexibility. Not to mention, you can also manage and track build schedules as part of the code. In this blog post, we’ll learn about the same.
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