Release pipelines

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Release pipelines

arkiboys 8,066

Hello,
In the development environment, I create sample pipelines to test, etc.
When I decide to deploy to production using the CI/CD release pipelines, what happens to the sample pipelines in dev? will they get migrated to production as well? if so, what is the best way to prevent these sample pipelines, linked services, etc. to go to prod
Thank you

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AnnuKumari-MSFT 21,316 Microsoft Employee

Hi @arkiboys ,
Pre-requisite for deploying ADF pipelines , is ADF should be connected to GIT repository or Azure GIT. While building or developing any pipeline , we use our local branch(feature branch). Once the pipeline is ready to get merged, pull request needs to be created in order to merge it to the main branch(collaboration branch). The moment any new changes in a Pull request is merged to the main branch and we hit Publish, ARM template gets re-generated with the new Json file in the branch called 'adf_publish' .

During migration when a release is created , all the latest changes from adf_publish will get deployed to higher environment.

The best practice to avoid the sample pipelines from deploying to higher environment is to let them be in the local branch and not merge it to the main branch in Dev environment until those are tested and ready for deployment.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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arkiboys 8,066 Reputation points

2022-01-20T11:23:18.627+00:00

Hi, thanks for your reply...
My question is exactly related to what you mentioned:
"The best practice to avoid the sample pipelines from deploying to higher environment is to let them be in the local branch and not merge it to the main branch in Dev environment until those are tested and ready for deployment."

In local branch, I have sample pipelines as well as the main pipelines which can go to prod... I first check small functionalities in the sample pipelines and once happy then add the functionality to the main pipeline in my local branch. Question is, at this stage, ok, I will get the main pipeline into prod from Dev but what shall I do with the smaller sample pipelines in my local branch? When I do a PR, they all go to main branch though? I guess what I am asking is that when I do a PR, I only want the main pipelines to go to the main branch rather than the sample pipelines. How can I achieve this?
Thank you
AnnuKumari-MSFT 21,316 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-01-20T12:09:42.247+00:00
@arkiboys ,

Always make sure you raise the PR from the latest created local branch only. If you create a PR from one of your older branches , there are high chances of conflicts. To your question , how to only push selected pipelines from local branch to main branch.

Create a new local branch.

Download the support files of the pipelines you want to push in your local system and unzip it.

Go to Git repository , select the newly created local branch and upload the unzipped json file . Make sure your pipeline json file should be uploaded in pipeline folder. Similarly , Dataset Json file should be uploaded to Dataset folder.

Once files are uploaded directly in GIT repo, refresh the page and check in ADF whether the newly created branch is having all the required pipelines and related entities or not . Then raise the PR from that branch
AnnuKumari-MSFT 21,316 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-01-21T04:51:39.507+00:00

Hi @arkiboys ,
Following up to see if the above suggestion was helpful, kindly do click Accept Answer and Up-Vote for the same. In case you have any further query please do let us know.

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