Cloud. DevOps. Architecture
In Azure DevOps, it’s convenient and easy to use one of the hosted agent pools. Microsoft takes the time to update the tooling as new versions of the of SDKs come out - like .NET Core. But, there’s one drawback - performance.
It’s not a terrible wait. They perform well considering you don’t have to maintain the image. But, it can be like watching a pot boil.
An excerpt from The Pheonix Project about WIP (Work in Progress):
When dealing with containers, our usual CI/CD processes start to change. Before containers, we used to push artifacts to our deployment locations. With containerization, instead of deploying a packaged artifact, we upload a container image to a central registry.
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