How to Automatically deploy Configuration Files with Azure DevOps CD pipelines
Introduction Part of the CI/CD Automation is to add environment-related configuration files through deployment automatically, rather than manually uploading them. This will provide less human error and more security by splitting the developer's responsibility of knowing the environment configuration or editing it, as to be handled by Operation side. We will take an example of CI for DotNet Core 6 WebApi project, and on that project, we need to copy the related appsetting.json to its environment. Pre-Requested Knowledge: To benefit from this article you need to be familiar with the following: Azure DevOps. the Concept of CI/CD. Azure CI/CD Pipelines. DotNet Core Web Api Deployment (or similar). Adding From Source Code Branch In some cases, we will have configuration files included in our source code, for example, in