CI/CD for .NET Core

📚 Learn more about .NET Core action features, integrations and alternatives.

Buddy lets you create delivery pipelines that will build, test and deploy your .NET Core application on a single push to the branch. The pipelines consist of actions that you can configure depending on your needs. .NET Core pipeline example.NET Core pipeline example

Configuration is very easy and takes only a couple of minutes.

1. Select your Git repository

Buddy supports all popular Git hosting providers, including GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. You can also use your own private Git server or host code directly on Buddy. Supported Git providersSupported Git providers

2. Add a new delivery pipeline

Enter the pipeline's name, select the trigger mode, and define the branch from which Buddy will fetch your code: Git repository selectionGit repository selection

Branch assignment — this is the branch from which Buddy will deploy. If you set the trigger mode to On push, Buddy will execute the pipeline upon every push to that branch.

Trigger modes:

  • Manual (on click) — recommended for Production
  • On push (automatic) — recommended for Development
  • Recurrently (on time interval) — recommended for Staging/Testing

3. Add actions

Buddy lets you choose from dozens of predefined actions. In this example, we'll add 4 actions that will perform the following tasks:

  • Build and test your .Net Core application
  • Upload code to Azure App Service
  • Send notification to Slack

3.1 Build your .NET Core application

Look up and click the .NET Core action to configure it. Here you can choose the .Net Core version and determine the commands to execute. The default commands are:

dotnet restore
dotnet build
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.NET Core action build commands console.NET Core action build commands console

If your tests require a database to run, you can attach it in the Services tab: Services tabServices tab

3.2 Deploy application to Azure

The compiled application needs to be uploaded to the server, Buddy has dedicated deployment actions for IAAS sites like Azure, DigitalOcean, Shopify etc. Head to the Deploy to IAAS section and select your upload action (Azure in our case): IAAS action selectionIAAS action selection

When adding the action you can choose where the code should be uploaded: Azure App Service configurationAzure App Service configuration

3.3 Send notification to Slack

You can configure Buddy to send your team a message after the deployment. In this example we'll use Slack: Notification actionsNotification actions

If you add this action to Actions run on failure Buddy will only send a message if something went wrong with your build or deployment.

4. Summary

Congratulations! You have just automated your entire delivery process. Make a push to the selected branch and watch Buddy fetch, build, and deploy your project. With Continuous Delivery applied, you can now focus on what's really important: developing awesome apps! 🔥

Bear in mind that this article is only a brief example of what Buddy can do. You can create additional pipelines for staging and production environments, integrate with your favorite services (AWS, Google, Azure), trigger tests on pull requests, build Docker images, and push them to the registry—the possibilities are unlimited.

If you want us to create a delivery pipeline for your project, drop a line to support@buddy.works – we'll be happy to help!

Last modified on July 13, 2022

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