Azure DevOps CI-CD for BizTalk with BTDF and Powershell

In this blog, I would showcase a simple demo to deploy application with BTDF and Powershell scripts using Azure Devops CI-CD pipeline.

In the BizTalk solution, I added the power-shell scripts to the solution as shown below and customized the RunDeployment.ps1 script to be generic by taking in parameters(Application, Deployment Type and Environment),please refer this article for the power-shell scripts.

Refer below screen shot for CI Pipeline configuration. Here, I'm building the BizTalk solution and then with msbuild task we are building the BTDF project. Once we have the msi file, we are copying those binaries to the staging area and then packaging to the Azure Artifacts.

Refer below screen shot for CD Pipeline configuration, here we have added just power-shell task and configured the parameters.

In order to achieve CI-CD, I enabled the continuous integration and delivery options. Now, for every check-in against the master branch, BizTalk application would be deployed in corresponding environment.

Azure DevOps for BizTalk CI-CD

In this blog, I would showcase a simple demo to deploy application using Azure Devops CI-CD pipeline with BizTalk Server Application Project.

In order leverage Azure Devops,  we should setup a build /azure pipeline agent in the environment(Dev,UAT and PROD).

Go to Organisation Setting in AzureDevops portal and click on  download agent from the Agent pools page.  Extract the zip and run the config.cmd. Now, provide the organisation url and access token (PAT) then configure the agent name and work directory as shown below

Once the build agent is ready, let us add the Application Project to the existing BizTalk solution and configure the JSON file, in this file we can define the order of BizTalk assemblies to be built and deployed and specify the bindings to be imported, we can even have the pre and post processing scripts as shown below. 

 Let us create the CI-CD pipeline in Azure Devops, navigate to Build under the pipeline and choose the repos and go an empty template as shown, 

Let us choose the agent and then add tasks to build(msbuild) and publish(publish artifacts) the artifacts in the azure tfs location, this published artifacts will be used by release pipeline for the deployment.

Here we will configure, release pipeline using the output of build pipeline. Create a new release pipeline and configure the build output and select tasks, choose Deploy BizTalk Server application and configure it as shown below.

Now, Build  (CI) and Release(CD) Pipelines are ready, we can enable continuous integration and continuous deployment triggers in build and release pipelines as shown below.

For every changes made to the Repo branch, CI and CD will be triggered and application would be deployed.