DevOps for Alliance Business Suite 🚀

Introduction

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is the backbone of modern DevOps environments. This page serves as the definitive guide for the CI/CD practices followed by the Alliance Business Suite (ABS) engineering team.

Objectives 🎯

  • Ensure rapid and reliable code changes.
  • Automate the software delivery process.
  • Enforce code quality and testing standards.

Tools Used 🛠️

  • Azure DevOps: For orchestrating our CI/CD pipeline.
  • GitHub: Source code repository.
  • MSTest and ABS.SnapBind: For automated testing.
  • Azure Cloud: Deployment environment.

Pipeline Overview 📋

Continuous Integration

  1. Code Commit: Developers commit their changes to GitHub.
  2. Automated Build: Azure DevOps triggers an automated build and runs unit tests.
  3. Code Review: Team reviews the code for quality.
  4. Merge: Code is merged into the main branch.

Continuous Deployment

  1. Automated Testing: MSTest and ABS.SnapBind run integration and end-to-end tests.
  2. Staging: Code is deployed to a staging environment.
  3. Manual Review: The team reviews the staging environment.
  4. Production Deployment: Code is deployed to the production environment.

Best Practices 🎩

Coding

  • Code Quality: Always maintain high-quality code. Low-quality code will not pass the automated checks.

Testing

  • Comprehensive Tests: Write unit, integration, and E2E tests for every new feature and bug fix.

Deployment

  • Immutable Infrastructure: Always provision new infrastructure for each deployment, rather than updating existing resources.

Common Issues and Troubleshooting 🚨

  1. Failed Tests: Check the error logs for specifics. A failed test will block the pipeline.
  2. Staging Issues: Always verify on staging before pushing to production.

Monitoring and Reporting 📊

  • New Relic: For performance monitoring.
  • Azure Monitoring: For system and application insights.

Conclusion 🏁

This CI/CD guide should act as a playbook for anyone involved in the software delivery process for the Alliance Business Suite. Automation, reliability, and speed are the tenets of our pipeline.

Got an idea to improve our CI/CD process? Feel free to contribute to this guide. Your input is highly valuable! 😄

For more details, consult our official Azure DevOps documentation.

Let's build something awesome—automatically! 🚀