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This blog post presents how to create and run a DotNet Azure DevOps pipeline as a Docker container. However, there is a slight problem when running VSTest on this container, and the remedy to this problem is explained in this post. Sources related to this container are located in this GitHub repo . Steps to create, run and test Docker DotNet build agent  Clone this GitHub repo to the local machine. Open a Powershell window and navigate to the folder where the cloned project is located. Execute “ docker build -t dockeragent:latest . ” to create the Docker image. Execute “ docker run -e AZP_URL=<Azure DevOps instance> -e AZP_TOKEN=<PAT token> -e AZP_AGENT_NAME=mydockeragent -e AZP_POOL=<(optional) pool to register the agent under> dockeragent:latest " to run a container based on the created image. Please remember to replace the placeholders with the information related to your Azure DevOps project. In a web browser navigate to the Agents tab under the Agent pool y...

In this blog post, we are going to run the Docker build agent we created in a previous blog post and run it on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).  Prerequisites   1. An Azure DevOps project to connect the AKS hosted build agent. We are going to use the PartsUnlimited project we created in an  earlier post  which meets these criteria. 2. Have Docker installed on your local machine with the ability to create and run Windows containers (Refer to the troubleshooting section on this post for instructions on how to switch). 3. Have Azure CLI installed on your machine. Steps First, we are going to tag the previously created docker build agent with a new tag more suitable for version control, and run it to test operation. 1. To create the docker agent we need to create a new folder and download the following Dockerfile file . ( Link to the normal view ) and start.ps1 file . ( Link to the normal view ) files into a local folder as follows. 2. Then open a Powershell w...

In this post, we are going to deploy a web app built using Azure DevOps. For this post, I will be using the Azure DevOps project built using an Azure VM in a previous post. We will be using the same Azure VM agent to run the release pipeline and will create a new web app with an Azure SQL server connection to deploy the web app to. Prerequisites   1. An Azure account (which you can create following the instructions on a  previous post ), with an Azure VM, configured as a build agent (which I configured and used in this previous post ). We will use this account to create a new Azure web app resource to deploy the project to. 2. An Azure DevOps organization (which you can create following the instructions on this  previous post ), to create the sample project. 3. An Azure DevOps project with a successfully built build pipeline. We are going to use the PartsUnlimited project we built using an Azure VM in an  earlier post  that meets these criteria. Steps There are ...