Steps for deployment of the operator or release pipeline

After the IT administrator has provisioned the common services on which the sample application is dependent on, an operator or release team can execute the step to provision, deploy, and configure the infrastructure and sample application.

The scripts described next are intended to run in  the VSTS release pipeline. However, they can also be run manually using a PowerShell editor such as ISE. The script has code commented for authenticating to the Azure subscription using the service principal created earlier. They should remain commented while using them in  the release pipeline and can be uncommented while executing the script manually. The release pipeline uses the concept of service endpoint which will be discussed in Chapter 10, Continuous Delivery and Deployment.