Setup CI on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure DevOps, Docker Compose and Helm

• Prerequisites
• Setup Build Pipelines (CI)
• Setup Release Pipelines (CD)
• What I learned

1. New build pipeline

   

2. Select source control – every check-in to that branch will trigger the build process

   

   NOTE: My demo code is not ready yet, I will push to github when ready

3. Start with an Empty job

   

4. Choose Ubuntu as agent pool to build Linux images

   

5. Add Docker Compose task to build images

   

   • Fill in Azure Subscription and Container Registry

     It will authorize build agent to access to Azure and Container Registry Service (e.g. Azure Container Registry or Docker Hub)

   • Select docker-compose files from source control

     Docker command will be generated based on Docker Compose File and Additional Docker Compose Files e.g.

       docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.production.yml build
     

   • Select “Build service images” in Action dropdown

     

     

6. Clone the #5 task to push images to ACR

   Just change Action to “Push service images”

   

7. Clone the #5 task to lock images

   Just change Action to “Lock service images”

   

8. Add “Copy Files” task to copy environment configuration yaml files e.g. values.Production.yaml

   

9. Install helm client

   • Fill in Azure Subscription, Resource group and Kubernetes group
   • Select “init” in Command dropdown
   • Set Arguments as “–client-only” to install helm client to package helm charts

   

   

10. Package helm charts

    • Select “package” in Command dropdown
    • Set Destination for the package to be saved in artifact

    

11. Publish Build Artifacts