As I type this, Azure DevOps is banging away at the new blog engine's dev-test pipeline so that I can confirm the last few bits of it are correctly configured. The production environment is up and working, except for icons and RECAPTCHA, which explains the rebuild. Google: your dashboards are really confusing.
Creating the production environment took 57 minutes this morning, and creating the production release pipeline (which included setting all the Azure roles properly on things like the database and Key Vault) took about 45 minutes. I'm particularly pleased that the pipeline succeeded on the second try, which is not my usual experience with devops tasks.
For the past hour or so, I've been testing the production environment, noticing annoyances, fixing them, and repeating the cycle. Now that the dev-test environment has restarted, and all looks good, I'm pushing up the Production branch to start the continuous-integration deployment to the Production environment.
The final step will be to transfer and transform the data from this version of The Daily Parker to the new one. With over 10,000 entries, plus the tags and comments that go along for the ride, that should take most of tomorrow. (Fortunately it's completely automated and idempotent.)
If all goes well, I will switch the DNS entries and move the SSL certificate to the new app once that is far enough along that people won't encounter broken links unless they're looking for them. Wish me luck.
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