lab-2-multi-stage-deployments.md

Avanade DevOps HOL - Lab 2 - Add QA environment and define your multi-stage continuous deployment process with approvals and gates

In this lab, we introduce a QA environment and setup our multi-stage continuous deployment process by adding approvals and gates.

Based on the following tutorials:

• Set up staging environments in Azure App Service
• Define your multi-stage continuous deployment (CD) process

Prerequisites

• Complete Lab 1 - Create a CI/CD pipeline for .NET with the Azure DevOps Project.

Tasks

First, let's define the QA environment:

1. Add a QA Deployment Slot to your App Service in Azure

2. Add a QA environment to your Release Definiton in VSTS

3. Configure the deployment step for the QA slot in the same App Service

4. Run a new Release

5. Review the new QA website is live on <yourappservice>-qa.azurewebsites.net

Use approvals and gates to control your deployment

1. Add pre deployment approval to control promotion from QA to Production

2. Add gate on 'Active Bugs' = 0

Next steps

Continue with Lab 3 - Analysis with SonarQube.