CICD pipeline for Azure Blob storage with CDN - Part 5 Set up Continues Deployment of our Hero Images

One of the saddest parts of Continuous Deployment is that it can't be scripted and we have to go through Microsoft anything is possible, it's just conveniently hidden behind 35 clicks and 17 modals. To get started log into your Azure Devops portal. 

Once you have to portal open click on the rocket ship and go to releases

Next click the "New pipeline" button. This will let you choose from some predefined Continuous deployment configurations, however we are going to start from a blank slate, so just choose "Empty job"

Next the we'll be prompted to start with the first stage of our continuous deployment, but before we get started, well select our artifact from our Continuous Integration pipeline, in this case the zip file in the drop folder. 

First close the stage panel, we'll get back to that later.

With the stage panel closed, click the "add artifact" area of the Artifacts section.

Now you'll be asked to choose the source pipeline, that's the YAML file we built previously, it defaults to our project name, however we could have given it a more specific name.

Once you choose your source pipeline everything else should just auto select for you.

Once you have everything selected, click the "Add" button, now that you've added your artifact (the output from the Continuous integration pipeline, the "zip" file in this case). You'll have to add the trigger for this pipeline, click the little lightning bolt.

You should be looking at the following, enable the continuous deployment trigger, and then close the panel, you could add a branch filter, but we only have a master branch in this example.

With the Continuous deployment trigger flyout panel collapsed, we're going to change the name of our Pipeline, just to make it extra clear at what it does. at the top center, click on "New release pipeline" and give it a new name' I'm calling it "Hero Image deployment pipeline" Once you've changed your Pipeline name, save your progress.

Once you click save, you'll be asked to which folder you would want to save to, for now just leave it as the root and hit the "OK" button.

That's it for now we can take a break, next we'll configure our actual pipeline.