DevOps journeys series – Vertica release pipeline with Azure DevOps – Ep. 02 – build

In a previous post, we’ve described the “from scratch” approach on the development side. When everything works well there, a push (or check-in) triggers the build engine. We must deal with two SQL Server instances (SSIS Servers hereafter), with an environment for each of them:

The build pipeline

The SSIS Servers keep Vertica‘s test and production mappings as well as test and production connection strings for the SQL Server databases. So we need the right variable mapping for all the scenarios, but this is not in the scope of the post, we will speak about it in the next posts. Anyways, here is how the build pipeline works:

Our build process

You may notice that the task “Copy vertica deploy scripts” is disabled. Well, to be honest, right now we’re waiting for the target integration environment.

Build process explained

In the beginning, the build server gets the source files from the repository and creates the target artifacts folder with a Powershell script. This will be the path from which we will push the artifacts to the release pipeline.

The build server generates the .ispac file for the SQL Server Integration Services packages using the dedicated task. The copy tasks will be executed:

As you can see, we’ve got a set of utilities and transformation tools, that will be executed in the release pipeline as well as the environment script. This one contains the SSISDB variables mapping and the SSIS Project configurations statements. Misc files, .sql files for environments and the .ispac file will be copied to the target artifacts folder.

The tasks above copy our template of the .nuspec file to generate the NuGet file (NuGet pack step). This is what we get using NuGet:

Then, we’re ready to publish the files to the release pipeline. We will see how the release pipeline works in the next posts.

Ehm… you miss Vertica

Yes, you’re right. But, it’ll be just a copy of .sql files to the artifacts folder. We will see how the release manager will execute them, so…

Stay tuned!

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