Here is the link to the “home page” for this blog series.

We are going to learn here how to:

• Create a new Release
• Create IIS website and SQL database deployment job
• Add an artifact
• Create Stage tasks
• Create File transform task
• Azure DevOps Folder structure on server
• Create Expand Archive Powershell task
• Remove/Install worker service

Prerequisites

• Server to deploy application to. Here is how you can create a server in the Azure
• Azure DevOps Account
• Add Server to the Azure DevOps Deployment Group

Create a new Release

When we have created well functional Continuous Integration (CI), read previous blog post here, it is time to set up Continuous Delivery (CD). Login to your Azure DevOps account and Navigate to Pipelines -> Releases

Releases

Click on _+ New _to create a new Release

New release pipeline

Choose + New release pipeline

Create IIS website and SQL database deployment job

In the Search box start to write IIS

And choose IIS website and SQL database deployment by clicking on Apply

Provide Stage name

Add an artifact

Now we are going to add an artifact. Click on Add an artifact area.

Artifacts

Here we are selecting published artifacts drop folder we created in the previous blog post here. And to remind you it looked like this

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