DevOps Pipeline Automation - Infrastructure and Application deployment

Question

1. Provision of two resources in Azure Subscription using ARM templates.

• Azure Container Registry.
• Azure Kubernetes Services.

2. Deploy the containerized application code to the Kubernetes clusters.

I am having implementation problems with these cases.

I want to integrate these two pipelines. but, I am having trouble doing it. How can I automate both of the above steps?

Note: The infrastructure and application code resides in the same GIT/ Azure Repository.

Answer 1

You should have a task that creates the ACR/AKS, one task that gets the credentials to be used in another task that would deploy to the ore created AKS and ACR. The best practice is not to integrate two pipelines as it is important to decouple the infrastructure provisioning from the application provisioning for many good reasons. There is also another workaround to dynamically capture the ACR and AKS name with ACR login credentials.

I hope this helps you.