Azure DevTest Labs
- VM’s that can have lab policies:
- to automatically shut down & start up VM’s
- to have caps e.g. max VM’s per user or max costs
- To be used for e.g.:
- Conduct compatibility and automated testing with reusable environment templates
- Provide virtual machines for hackathons that automatically expire after the event.
Use DevTest Labs in Azure Pipelines
Microsoft documentation
- Two use-cases with Azure Pipelines:
- Cheap way to create continuous test environments
- E.g. for development and test environments
- Create a VM with golden image to execute a specific task e.g. build Erlang/Hack.
- During the build/test phase
- you can add ARM templates & supporting files to the build sources
- so that during the release phase the exact configuration used to test with is deployed to production.
- You can use the Azure DevTest Labs Tasks extension with tasks such as:
- Create Azure DevTest Labs Environment
- 💡 You can instead use an ARM template to deploy the environment instead of this task.
- Deploy ARM template to existing Azure DevTest Labs Environment
- You can provision both Azure PaaS resources & IaaS VMs