Summary
In this chapter, we have gone through the basic steps of creating an ARM template so that the cloud infrastructure required for our application can be provisioned and managed in line with IaC concepts. Having set up our cloud resources as a declarative JSON manifest, we can easily version and keep track of our environment(s) without environment drift and infrastructure-related deployment issues. The .NET Core build and publish steps that are part of the Azure DevOps services are then used to create the deployment artifacts, which seamlessly integrate with the Azure cloud infrastructure.
We have managed to prepare our build-and-release pipeline for one of the .NET Core services in this chapter. However, what we are actually after is to create the deployment artifacts during the continuous integration build and use a release pipeline to deploy the infrastructure, followed by deployment of the app service artifacts. We will create the release pipeline in the next chapter...