Pull Request Checks to Next Level with Deploys

In the previous blog post I wrote about pull request builds to help keeping the master branch clean. This time I wrote about one level higher check that can be used in Azure DevOps: pull request deploys. We deploy to a temporary site from the pull request and run some integration/UI tests against it. If it doesn't pass, merge can't be done.

Build Already in Pull Request and Builds Won’t Fail

Usually we have builds against the master branch. It is good but now and then builds fail and we have to fix the code. Better way would be to find errors before that. Pull request builds help with that. That way the build pipeline will be one of the "reviewer" in the pull request and doesn't pass the pull request if the build fails. In this blog post I will demontstrate how this can be done in Azure DevOps with Azure Repos.

Azure App Service Settings Task by Microsoft for Azure DevOps

Recently I found this Azure DevOps task by Microsoft to maintain Azure app services' appsettings. It is quite new (only 22 days old) and still in preview. In this blog post I have tried to use it and also give some hints how to manage appsettings from Azure DevOps.