Achieving continuous deployment or continuous delivery is hard. Not only do you need to make sure your codebase and tool chain have a certain level of maturity, automating the actual build, test and deployment pipeline can be quite hard. Fortunately it's 2024 and we have two awesome tools for achieving that illustrious goal in the .NET realm. Nuke is a C#-based framework to encapsulate all the steps you need to do to compile, test, verify and package your code instead of relying on YAML magic. Pulumi is a framework for provisioning cloud infrastructure using C#. And no, you don't need to any obscure JSON or custom DSL syntax that products like Terraform or Bicep use. Both products support the same inline documentation, debugging, refactoring and other capabilities we are so used to as .NET developers.

So join me to see how to use these tools to build a deployment pipeline that grows with your code-base and bring you into the modern world of continuous deployment.

* C# build pipeline using Nuke that triggers Pulumi to deploy a dokcer container on Azure
* Github actions triggering that pipeline based on a label
* Demonstrate code navigation, refactoring and debugging