I’m reaching out to inquire if anyone has experience integrating the on-premise Cloverleaf version with Microsoft Azure DevOps using Git. I would appreciate any information or guidance shared.
What do you want to use Azure for? Just hosting your Git repos?
Git workflow doesn’t really do that much for our Cloverleaf development. We can’t have multiple devs cloning separate copies of a site and running them independently due to licensing issues for servers. We generally do all your development in test versions of our production site on a test server. If you have multiple devs, they are generally logged into the hci account and working with the same set of files.
We’re stilling using SVN instead of GIT. My opinion is that most of GIT’s advantages don’t apply due to the Cloverleaf restrictions, so I haven’t seen the need to move. We have separate branches of our sites for test and prod. We check our changes into the test server and merge the changes from the test branch to the prod branch on the prod server. Our SVN repo is on a totally separate server running Trac (trac.edgewall.org). I think the same type of configuration should work for GIT, and locally hosted GIT vs. cloud hosted should be similar.
I suppose that having pull requests for the prod branch could help with change management. In that case you could keep a copy of your prod sites (not running) on your test server, merge your changes from test, push the changes to Azure, make a pull request. Someone approves the request, then pull the changes down to your prod server.
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