ADF CICD how to retain the pipelines

Question

Using CICD process in Azure DevOps, I want to keep the pipelines to the UAT (they are getting deleted)

I am trying to use -deletedeployment false but seems this option is not working. Still the pipleines are getting deteted.

Is there any other way to retain the pipelines during the CICD process from the Dev to UAT?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Hello DineshV-1571

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 helps.