tl;dr Background Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines are great tools to automate the deployment process of a software. Their main objective is to minimise human error and maintain a consistent process for how the software is released. For Xcode projects this becomes a time critical process once the project has to be built for different configurations and/or environments. Since every configuration might require a different signing method, or even different deployment platform.

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been working on a React app from scratch. Additionally, we’ve added pipelines in Azure as an attempt to achieve MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY when it comes to deployment and integration. So there we are. It’s a lovely morning. The sun is shining, the coffee is warm, and we’re ready to drop some lines of code! 😎 Last week we built and deployed a version of our React app that had a slightly faulty CSS attribute that made the header of the app take up the whole screen.

In a project I work with we use Azure App Service for hosting an ASP.NET application. All external configuration used by the application is stored in an Azure App Configuration store. I recently updated how the application authenticates toward the App Configuration store and think it worked out pretty well. Prior to the change we used connection strings (i.e. a string containing endpoint, username and password) for authentication. The main drawback with this is that we have to manage the credentials ourselves.