I have an existing Azure DevOps release pipeline that deploys resources using Azure CLI to multiple environments DEV, TEST, PROD.
I'd like to switch gradually to using Bicep files.
Microsoft's Quickstart: Integrate Bicep with Azure Pipelines shows how to build a build pipeline using an inline CLI scipt, but I wasn't able to find help on how to setup a bicep task in a release pipeline.
There are no official bicep tasks for release pipelines like there are for ARM files.
Do I need to use a Azure CLI script task type to run something like
az deployment group create --resource-group $(resourceGroupName) --template-file $(templateFile) --parameters "{ \"someparameter1\": { \"value\": \"$(someparameter1)\" } }"?
Bicep is a domain-specific language that compiles into ARM-templates, so you have (at least) two possible approaches here:
either you deploy bicep templates with the az deployment group create -command without building them (in which case the az -command compiles Bicep into an ARM-template and deploys that)
OR
you compile the bicep template yourself with bicep build (or az bicep build) and deploy the ARM-template it creates like you have deployed them before.
The first approach is more straightforward, the latter might fit better to your existing approach if you have, for example, existing separate build and release pipelines or utilize some kind of testing for the ARM-templates before deploying them.
Here is a really good tutorial that provides an answer to your question https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/bicep-azure-pipelines/ It's also very well written.
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I want to Create Azure Build pipelines using Terraform code, but not able to find any proper documentation on this. Is it possible ?
I tried terraform documentation, expecting some documentation or video guide how to create Azure build pipelines using terraform code
is it possible to create azure build pipelines using terraform code?
The answer is impossible.
Hashicorp doesn't have a terraform provider for Azure DevOps now.
If you check the azurerm provider, only azurerm_data_factory_pipeline is available, no Azure DevOps build pipeline.
You should look at the Azure DevOps provider From Microsoft. It does contain a resource for build definitions but you will need to pass it the path to an existing YAML file, you can't create the YAML from Terraform.
If you have a "templated" YAML then you could create a process that commits the YAML to a repo then use Terraform to set up the definition.
My release pipelines are YAML based and I want to trigger it using CLI. The pipeline has multiple stages/environments like DEV, SIT, QA, UAT. If I trigger the pipeline using
az pipelines run --organization $(org) --project $(proj) --name $(pipeline-name) --branch $(pipeline-branch)
it triggers the pipeline and deploys from DEV.
My need is to run the pipeline for a specific environment, say if I want to deploy only to SIT and not start from DEV how to do it.
No --environment or --stages exist in az pipelines run.
Tried with REST API as well but could not due to poor documentation.
Please help me in triggering the pipeline for deployment directly to a specific environment ?
Until recently I ran Selenium automated tests from the Azure Test Plans using a YAML pipeline for the Build part and a classic Release Definition for the Release part.
Now, the organization I work in does not allow the use of classic Release Definitions from Azure DevOps.
So I extended my YAML Build Pipeline with stages for running my automated tests on different environments.
But I also want to make use of the Azure Test Plans for running my tests.
My problem is that when I want to run a test from my Test Plan, the only possibility for selecting a Release pipeline is the classic Release Definition I have created.
Is there any possibility to trigger the run of my automated tests from the Azure Test Plans, but to use a YAML pipeline when selecting the Stage.
Thank you!
I tried to edit the settings of my Test Plan, but in order to select a Stage, I have to select a Release Pipeline, and the only options are the ones existing in the Pipelines -> Releases windows of Azure DevOps
Whether ansible can be used to create release and build pipelines in azure is there any existing or custom modules for creating pipelines?
The answer is yes. Ansible can be used in azure devops pipelines.
You can click here to install Ansible extension in your azure devops organization. After it is installed, you can use Ansible task in the pipeline to run playbook.
To get started with azure devops pipeline. You can check out this document.
You can check below detailed tutorial about using ansible in azure devops pipeline.
Automating Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Ansible and Azure Pipelines
I don't know if is already released az devops extension to create pipeline release with AZ CLI.
There are post relating to 1y ago.
I found documentation here but I can't understant how to create various stage of release pipeline.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ext/azure-devops/pipelines/release?view=azure-cli-latest#ext-azure-devops-az-pipelines-release-create
Someone has already created release pipeline with yaml and tell me how please? Or just post some command to import into Azure-DevOps project?
For this issue , right now there is no way to automate the creation of classic release definition. You will need to create the definition and then you can queue a Release run using az pipelines release create command.
The role of az pipelines release create command is to kick off a new release for an existing release pipeline, not to create a new release pipeline.
You can refer to this issue on github about this.
So as a workaround , it is possible to automate the new yaml pipeline definitions with az pipelines create command which can constitute both build (CI) and release (CD).
First you can create a yaml file(e.g. azure-pipelines.yml) in the repo and set the definition for both CI and CD pipelines in the yaml file. YAML schema reference can give you guidance.
Then you can create an Azure Pipeline for a repository with the pipeline yaml already checked in into the repository via az pipeline create command. Specify --yaml-path in the command.
--yaml-path --yml-path :
Path of the pipelines yaml file in the repo (if yaml is already
present in the repo).