Post-deployment script for CICD

Question

For CICD process in Azure DevOps, I don't want to delete anything from UAT.

I made changes to DEV and I created pre- and post-deployment scripts for UAT. For post-deployment script:

-armTemplate "$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/<your-arm-template-location>" -ResourceGroupName <your-resource-group-name> -DataFactoryName <your-data-factory-name> -predeployment $false -deleteDeployment $false

I added -deleteDeployment $false, but every pipeline got deleted that didn't exist on DEV (or that I deleted from DEV).

How can I make sure that nothing will be deleted from UAT during CICD process?

Answer 1

Hello Ksenija Saulic,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A forum.

Using CICD it only merges the changes, it doesn't delete/add any objects.

In your case, every pipeline got deleted that didn't exist on DEV - this is because of the above reason I mentioned (CICD only merge the changes)

The pre and post deployment scripts stop triggers before deployment and restart them afterward.

and your understanding is wrong with respect to -deleteDeployment $false

The -deleteDeployment flag is used to specify the deletion of the ADF deployment entry from the deployment history in ARM.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/continuous-integration-delivery-sample-script

If you are looking to cherry pick specific pipelines using CICD, you need to consider isolating the artifacts in a separate branch and use the validate and deploy operation to deploy the artifacts from that branch.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/cicd/source-control#unsupported-features

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-synapse-analytics-blog/automating-the-publishing-of-workspace-artifacts-in-synapse-cicd/ba-p/3603042

I hope this answers your question.