Deploying Your Application to a DevTest Labs VM Using Azure DevOps Pipelines
Azure DevTest Labs is a powerful environment for provisioning and managing virtual machines (VMs) for development and testing. Once you have created a DevTest Labs VM, you may want to deploy your application to the VM as part of your automated CI/CD process in Azure DevOps. This article will guide you through deploying an application to a DevTest Labs VM using tasks like Azure File Copy and PowerShell on Target Machines in a YAML pipeline.
Overview
After you have created and configured your DevTest Labs VM, you can deploy your application to it. If your goal is simply to experiment with creating VMs or custom images, you can skip this step. However, if you want to automate the deployment of an application, you can integrate tasks into your Azure DevOps pipeline to copy files to the VM and execute deployment scripts on the machine.
The necessary VM information, such as the resource group name, IP address, and fully qualified domain name (FQDN), can be stored in pipeline variables (labVmRgName, labVMIpAddress, and labVMFqdn). These variables are typically generated during the VM creation process.
