Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 6: Continuous Deployment - Release Definition

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06/27/2017

This time, I create a Release Definition to complete the CI/CD pipeline. While build definition defines how to build the source, release definition defines how to release the compiled bits. I include following three tasks.

Infrastructure as a Code (ARM template for Azure) to automate infrastructure.
Release
Function Test

You can find the detail of ARM Template here.

ARM (Azure Resource Manager) Template

I already created App Service via Visual Studio, but I will automate it by using ARM Template.

Get Template

It’s tedious to write a template from scratch, and you can get it from Azure Portal.

1. Login to https://portal.azure.com. To start from scratch, let’s delete the resource group provisioned previously.
* Before delete the environment, please take a note for each application settings as you need them later.

2. Next, create a Web App from new.

3. Specify the settings and click [Automation options], which generates templates for you.

4. Click [Download]

5. Extract the template.zip file. You find template.json, which contains service definitions and parameters.json, which contains values for each parameters.

6. As this template only contains single WebApp service definition, you can add more as you need. For now, replace the template.json as follows.

 {
  "parameters": {
    "webName": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "webNameTest": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "hostingPlanName": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "hostingEnvironment": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "sku": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "skuCode": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "workerSize": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "serverFarmResourceGroup": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "subscriptionId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "botId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "microsoftAppId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "microsoftAppPassword": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "activeDirectory.RedirectUrl": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "botIdTest": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "microsoftAppIdTest": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "microsoftAppPasswordTest": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "activeDirectory.RedirectUrlTest": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "apiVersion": "2016-03-01",
      "name": "[parameters('webName')]",
      "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
      "properties": {
        "name": "[parameters('webName')]",
        "serverFarmId": "[concat('/subscriptions/', parameters('subscriptionId'),'/resourcegroups/', parameters('serverFarmResourceGroup'), '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('hostingPlanName'))]",
        "hostingEnvironment": "[parameters('hostingEnvironment')]"
      },
      "location": "[parameters('location')]",
      "tags": {
        "[concat('hidden-related:', '/subscriptions/', parameters('subscriptionId'),'/resourcegroups/', parameters('serverFarmResourceGroup'), '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('hostingPlanName'))]": "empty"
      },
      "dependsOn": [
        "[concat('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('hostingPlanName'))]"
      ],
      "resources": [
        {
          "apiVersion": "2015-08-01",
          "name": "appsettings",
          "type": "config",
          "tags": {
            "displayName": "WebAppSettings"
          },
          "properties": {
            "BotId": "[parameters('botId')]",
            "MicrosoftAppId": "[parameters('microsoftAppId')]",
            "MicrosoftAppPassword": "[parameters('microsoftAppPassword')]",
            "ActiveDirectory.RedirectUrl": "[parameters('activeDirectory.RedirectUrl')]"
          },
          "dependsOn": [
            "[concat('Microsoft.Web/sites/', parameters('webName'))]"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "apiVersion": "2016-03-01",
      "name": "[parameters('webNameTest')]",
      "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
      "properties": {
        "name": "[parameters('webNameTest')]",
        "serverFarmId": "[concat('/subscriptions/', parameters('subscriptionId'),'/resourcegroups/', parameters('serverFarmResourceGroup'), '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('hostingPlanName'))]",
        "hostingEnvironment": "[parameters('hostingEnvironment')]"
      },
      "location": "[parameters('location')]",
      "tags": {
        "[concat('hidden-related:', '/subscriptions/', parameters('subscriptionId'),'/resourcegroups/', parameters('serverFarmResourceGroup'), '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('hostingPlanName'))]": "empty"
      },
      "dependsOn": [
        "[concat('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('hostingPlanName'))]"
      ],
      "resources": [
        {
          "apiVersion": "2015-08-01",
          "name": "appsettings",
          "type": "config",
          "tags": {
            "displayName": "WebAppSettings"
          },
          "properties": {
            "BotId": "[parameters('botIdTest')]",
            "MicrosoftAppId": "[parameters('microsoftAppIdTest')]",
            "MicrosoftAppPassword": "[parameters('microsoftAppPasswordTest')]",
            "ActiveDirectory.RedirectUrl": "[parameters('activeDirectory.RedirectUrlTest')]"
          },
          "dependsOn": [
            "[concat('Microsoft.Web/sites/', parameters('webNameTest'))]"
          ]
        }
      ]      
    },
    {
      "apiVersion": "2016-09-01",
      "name": "[parameters('hostingPlanName')]",
      "type": "Microsoft.Web/serverfarms",
      "location": "[parameters('location')]",
      "properties": {
        "name": "[parameters('hostingPlanName')]",
        "workerSizeId": "[parameters('workerSize')]",
        "numberOfWorkers": "1",
        "hostingEnvironment": "[parameters('hostingEnvironment')]"
      },
      "sku": {
        "Tier": "[parameters('sku')]",
        "Name": "[parameters('skuCode')]"
      }
    }
  ],
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2014-04-01-preview/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0"
}

7. Replace the code in paramters.json. Change the value to fit your environment.

 {
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {
    "webName": {
      "value": "o365botprod"
    },
    "webNameTest": {
      "value": "o365bottest"
    },
    "hostingPlanName": {
      "value": "O365BotPlan"
    },
    "hostingEnvironment": {
      "value": ""
    },
    "location": {
      "value": "South Central US"
    },
    "sku": {
      "value": "Standard"
    },
    "workerSize": {
      "value": "0"
    },
    "serverFarmResourceGroup": {
      "value": "O365BotRG"
    },
    "skuCode": {
      "value": "S1"
    },
    "subscriptionId": {
      "value": "__YourAsureSubscriptionId__"
    },
    "botId": {
      "value": "__YourBotId__"
    },
    "microsoftAppId": {
      "value": "__YourMicrosoftAppId__"
    },
    "microsoftAppPassword": {
      "value": "__YourMicrosoftAppPassword__"
    },
    "activeDirectory.RedirectUrl": {
      "value": "__YourSite__/api/OAuthCallback"
    },
    "botIdTest": {
      "value": "__YourTestBotId__"
    },
    "microsoftAppIdTest": {
      "value": "__YourTestMicrosoftAppId__"
    },
    "microsoftAppPasswordTest": {
      "value": "__YourTestMicrosoftAppPassword__"
    },
    "activeDirectory.RedirectUrlTest": {
      "value": "__YourTestSite__/api/OAuthCallback"
    }
  }
}

Create repository for ARM template

In VSTS, create new repository for ARM template.

1. Login to your VSTS and go to the project.

2. Create the repository dropdown and click [New repository].

3. Enter any name such as ARM.

4. Click [Initialize].

5. Once the repository created, copy template.json and parameters.json.

Release Definition

Now I am ready to create the Release Definition.

Create Release Definitoin

1. Select Build & Release and go to Releases, click [New definition].

2. Select Empty as template and click [Next].

3. Select your build for this release and enable [Continuous deployment]. As you can see, Jenkins is also supported Smile .

Now blank definition is created.

Add Artifacts

If you need files in addition to Build output, you can link them as Artifact.

1. Select Artifacts tab and click [Link an artifact source]

2. Select ARM repository by using Git type.

3. Do the same for BotWithDevOps Repository.

Add ARM task

1. Go back to Environment tab, and rename [Environment 1] to [ARM]

2. Click [Add tasks].

3. From Deploy category, add [Azure Resource Group Deployment].

4. Change the template version down to [1.*]. v2 didn’t work well in my lab.

5.Select the Azure subscription, and click [Authorize]. Select [Create or update resource group] for Action which create the environment if not exist, otherwise update the settings to match with templates.