This document discusses deploying Logic Apps using version control and continuous integration/deployment. It demonstrates setting up a Logic App template in Visual Studio Team Services source control, building the template using a build definition, and deploying it to environments through release management. The deployment is fully automated using Azure Resource Manager templates, PowerShell scripts, and either Visual Studio Team Services or GitHub for deployment. This provides a unified process to deploy Logic Apps and related Azure resources across environments from source control in a reusable, parameterized manner.

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Mattias Lögdberg 2016-06-27

3. Mattias Lögdberg
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4. Agenda
• Setting the Scen
• Develpoment
• Version control using Visual Studio Team Services (TFS Online)
• Build using Visual Studio Team Services (TFS Online)
• Deployment and Release Managemet using TFS Online
• Deployment using GitHub

5. • Azure Services
– Blobb Storage
• Logic Apps
• Visual Studio 2015
• Visual Studio Team Services (TFS Online)
• PowerShell
• Logic Apps Template Creator (@Github by Jeff Hollan)
– https://github.com/jeffhollan/LogicAppTemplateCreator
• Azure Deploy @ GitHub

6. BuildVersion
Control
Develop Delpoy

7. The Logic App
• Recieve HTTP call
• Upload content to blobbstorage

8. Developing Logic Apps
• Browser
• Templates
• JSON

9. Demo
• Creating Azure Service, Storage and prepare for blobb upload
• Creating a Logic App to send File to Blobb Storage
• Preparing for deployment
– Identifying the ”hard coded” parts
– Parameterize

10. What we created
App Service PlanResource Group
Logic App
Storage Account
Connection

11. BuildVersion
Control
Develop Delpoy

12. Version Control
• Keeping track of changes
• Build
• Test
• Deployment and Release handling

13. Demo – Source Control
• Extracting the Logic App Template
• https://github.com/jeffhollan/LogicAppTemplateCreator
• Create Visual Studio Project
• Add template, environment and parameter files
• Create a script to manipulate the Azure resources
– Creating the Container if needed
• Adding the Solution to TFS

14. What we created
• Template for creating all ”needed” resources
– Creating the Storage Account
• Automated creation of Connection(s)
– Creating the connection with key and name
• Script for creating Container in Blobb Storage
• Version control

15. BuildVersion
Control
Develop Delpoy

16. Building Logic Apps
• Copy template and parameter files
• Copy powershell script files

17. Demo – Create Build
• Create Build definition
• Build

18. What we created
• Copying Artifacts to be used with deployments

19. BuildVersion
Control
Develop Delpoy

20. Deployment
• Template deploy
– Resource Group
– Azure Resources (App Service Plan, Logic App etc)
• Powershell for administrating Azure Resources
– Create the Container for Blobb Storage
App Service PlanResource Group
Logic App
Storage Account
Connection

21. Demo – Create Releases
• Create Release from Build
• Add stepp for template deploy
• Add Script for creating the container if not created

22. What we created
• Release handling
– Easy release to mutilpe environments
• Control over what is released in what environment
• 100% automated deploy
Storage Account Logic App
$(containername)

23. Summary
• Fully automated Deployment
– Logic App
– Other Azure Resources
• Unified Deployment regardless of Azure Resource or Logic App.
• Reusable templates, parameterize.
• Make a plan for shared resources

24. Alternatives
• Github
– Azure Deploy
• Other build engines
– Requirements Azure Powershell or Azure CLI
– Recomendation: Create login credentials and load in script
• Save-AzureRmProfile
• Select-AzureRmProfile
– Recomendation: Create small reusable powershell script and execute in
sequence at deployment

25. Github Deployments
• Azure Deploy
Example at
https://github.com/MLogdberg/LogicAppTemplates

26. Wrap Up
Pros
• Template deploy for unified deployment. (Azure resources)
• Once over the ”bump” it’s easy
• Everything can be solved via powershell
Cons
• Native template export missed!
• Hard to find error causes
• Steap learning curve

28. Thank you for your attention!
Mattias Lögdberg, Solutions Architect
Email: Mattias. Logdberg@ibiz-solutions.se
Tel: +46 (0)70 556 75 56
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