This document discusses how to automate the project lifecycle for MuleSoft applications using MuleSoft and Azure DevOps. It covers setting up continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines for building, testing, and deploying MuleSoft applications to different environments. The document provides an overview of the tools and processes used, including configuring notifications, auditing deployment logs, and securely managing application properties and secrets.

1. Automate your project lifecycle
using MuleSoft and Azure DevOps
Renato de Oliveira

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Topics
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• DevSecOps in MuleSoft Applications
• Pipelines
– CI (Continuous Integration)
• Unit tests (MUnit)
– CD (Continuous Delivery)
• Notifications and Alerts
• Audit
• Properties and Secrets Management

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Tools
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Tools is just one of the gears
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People
Process
Tools

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About the Process
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• Define a process that makes sense for your business
• Map the environments (Dev, QA, Production)
• Involve the other teams involved in the delivery process
– Operations Team
– Security Team
• Think about fixing bugs
• Deploy approvers
• Think about the rollback strategy
• Properties and secrets management
• Audit
– Which application was published, the version, who and when

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Environments for this demo
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Develop Quality
Production
Cloudhub
Production
On Premise

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Build (Package Generation)
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> mvn clean package

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Deploy (Tools Options)
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Anypoint-CLI
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https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/anypoint-platform-cli
Anypoint Platform provides a scripting and command line tool for both Anypoint Platform and
Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition. The CLI supports both interactive shell and standard CLI
modes
> npm install -g anypoint-cli@latest
> anypoint-cli --username="user"
Password: ****
> anypoint-cli runtime-mgr cloudhub-application deploy
--region=us-east-1 $apiName
--runtime $runtime
--workerSize=$workerSize
--property mule.env:$environment
$applicationJar

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Tools to automate build and deploy
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Overview Azure DevOps
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Process for this demo
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Branch
develop
Branch
master
Develop Quality
Production
Cloudhub
Production
On Premise
CI CD
Environments
Branch
feature-a
Branch
feature-b
Pull Request Pull Request
Build
Deploy
Test
Build
Deploy
Test
Build
Test

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Demo – Run Pipeline
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Notifications and Alerts
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Audit Logs
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Properties and secrets management
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• Property files
• Properties in console of runtime manager
• Secure Properties
– Encrypt properties in property files
– Hide properties in runtime manager
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.2/configuring-properties
https://docs.mulesoft.com/mule-runtime/4.2/secure-configuration-properties
https://docs.mulesoft.com/runtime-manager/secure-application-properties