Azure DevOps Self-Hosted Agent

Demo project for following the documentation for Linux.

To create the infrastructure:

terraform init
terraform apply -auto-approve

On Azure DevOps:

1. Create a project
2. Create a PAT with Agent Pools and Deployment permissions
3. In Agent Pools, select the "Default" and Linux
4. Follow the steps to install the agent
5. Configure the agent as a service

When completed, the agent will be online:

Create a pipeline based on the app/azure-hello.yaml file in this repo. It is set up to use a self-hosted agent.

Run the pipeline.

💡 You'll need to give permissions to the pipeline

Docker build/push to ACR

The pipeline app/azure-acr.yaml will build and deploy to ACR.

Create a service connect for Docker Registry and select the option "Others". Create the

Now create the pipeline that will build and push to ACR. Change the containerRegistry attribute as required.

steps:
- task: Docker@2
  inputs:
    containerRegistry: 'acr-docker-others'
    repository: 'myapp'
    command: 'buildAndPush'
    Dockerfile: '**/Dockerfile'

Deploy to a VM environment

Following the VM deploy environment docs, create an environment called "Production".

Register the VM as a resource, like vm-myapp-app.

Create the pipeline referencing app/azure-deploy.yaml with the ACR_ADMIN_PASSWORD secret.

Run the pipeline to pull and run the previously built image.

Develop the local Docker app

To check if the code in app directory is running:

docker build -t hello .
docker run --rm -p 3333:3333 hello

Reference

• Example article
• Azure Code Deploy