Deployment strategy - questions about api-management-developer-portal

[TravisLRiffle]

Have you finished your deployment strategy? We want to create a standard Azure devops build and release pipeline around this and I'm looking for guidance on the best approach for this.

[mikebudzynski]

We currently recommend using scripts/migrate.js for DevOps; there are detailed instructions inline in the script and in the Wiki section of the repository.

In the coming months, we are planning to move the administrative plane of the portal to ARM (Azure Resource Manager). No ETA at this moment.

[mikebudzynski]

@kaylakirzinger

Regarding general API Management deployments

What do you mean by pipeline? What swagger changes are overwritten? Would using the tools from our dev-ops resource kit help? You can find them at http://aka.ms/apimdevops

It would be helpful, if you could give us an example.

Regarding developer portal deployments

We're still working on finalizing our story on the portal dev-ops and evaluating if we can align the process with the dev-ops resource kit available at the link above.

For now, you can script the deployments and migrations between environments using APIs, which are described in the wiki section.

We also prepared a sample script to help you get started. We'll be documenting it soon - Issue #124 for reference.

[kaylakirzinger]

Thank you for the sample script, much appreciated.

If I can deploy the portal without deploying the entire APIM instance we should be fine.

I think your tools should help - we were using home-grown deployment pipeline steps that were not working correctly apparently.

Thanks!

[mikebudzynski]

Regarding portal-specific DevOps - we have just extended our documentation: https://github.com/Azure/api-management-developer-portal/wiki/Migrate-portal-between-services and provided more comments in the script to make it easier to understand.

[molinch]

@mikebudzynski it seems like new portal templates aren't saved to Azure git when you synchronize the repository.
Same behaviour if I'm doing Settings> Export Template

Is it normal?

[mikebudzynski]

Yes, they are not part of the Git repository or ARM templates.

[SSanjeevi]

@mikebudzynski Same question - Have you finished your deployment strategy? We want to create a standard Azure devops build and release pipeline around this