Solution ideas
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Azure is a world-class cloud for hosting virtual machines running Windows or Linux. Whether you use Java, Node.js, Go, or PHP to develop your applications, you'll need a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to push changes to these virtual machines automatically.
Potential use cases
Organizations utilize this solution for some of the benefits that include:
- Changes in the application start with a software push to the Git code repository instead of logging into the server via SSH.
- Simplified and reliable deployments.
- Fault tolerance.
- Resolve issues faster.
- It takes the most advantage of the cloud, hence its legitimate DevOps functions.
Architecture
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Dataflow
- Change application source code.
- Commit code to GitHub.
- Continuous Integration Trigger to Jenkins.
- Jenkins triggers a Packer image build to create a VM and stores it as a VM image using Azure Managed Disks.
- Jenkins triggers Terraform to provision a new Virtual Machine Scale Set using the Azure Managed Disks VM image.
- Azure Log Analytics collects and analyzes logs.
- Monitor application and make improvements.
Components
- Managed Disks: Persistent, secured disk storage for Azure virtual machines.
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets: Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows virtual machines.
- Log Analytics: Collect, search, and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud.
- Visual Studio Code: Build and deploy multi-platform apps to get the most from Azure services.