如何使用 azure tfs 在 CI/CD 管道中配置应用程序设置

Question

I am try to create an CI/CD pipeline using azure tfs. I have successfully build and deployed pipeline using IIS web deployment utility. But now, I want to deploy asp.net app to local on-premise machine. But during build or release, I want to configure app settings, so that I can choose the connection strings and server locations. I followed a lot of tutorials on Microsoft website and other like this But, there is a problem, it asks for azure subscription. Do I need it in my case? Is there any alternative approach or some tutorial I can follow to do such deployment?

I do have a basic plan subscription, but I am haven't figured put how much azure app service utility will cost?

Can someone guide me, if I am in right direction or share some resource I could follow?

Answer 1

According to your question, you need to use IIS Web App Deploy task, so you do not need azure subscription. You can use the File Transforms & Variable Substitution function that comes with IIS Web App Deploy to configure connection strings and server locations through XML transformation or XML variable substitution . For details,please refer to this document .

Or you can try to use File Transform task.