Azure DevOps pipeline for running processes

Question

I'm currently working on a project that has no CI/CD, everything is done by manually copying. I have a,Net project that basically runs as a service on my server, right now with the manual copy process I have to kill the job, and copy the new dll's or exe's and restart. otherwise I'd get an error that the process is running and deleting/replacing it is not possible.

What's going to happen when using Azure DevOps pipeline? Am I going to have the same issue? I can't find much regarding this online.

Answer 1

As you can see in the following links' information, summarizing, CI/CD tools are designed to automate all the required actions that need to be executed to deploy new versions of your code/apps (among other objectives). You are manually executing those actions right now, and CI/CD is going to do it on behalf of you. Most of the Cloud solutions for CI/CD are designed to run, avoiding any impact in the application's availability. Take a look in the following links, the first one for the root concept and the second one mostly inside Azure Dev Ops:

Continuous integration and continuous delivery explained Design a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps