Developer Builds End-to-End CI/CD Pipeline Using Azure DevOps, AKS, Helm and PostgreSQL

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A developer has documented the process of integrating Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Helm, and PostgreSQL into a single production-style CI/CD pipeline after learning each technology separately. The project uses a simple three-tier application — frontend, backend, and database — to focus learning on infrastructure rather than application complexity. Code moves from a GitHub repository through Azure DevOps pipelines, gets containerized and pushed to Azure Container Registry, and is then deployed to AKS via Helm charts. PostgreSQL was deliberately hosted as an Azure Flexible Server outside the cluster, connected via a private network and private DNS zone, rather than running inside Kubernetes. The project, built on an Azure for Students subscription in the South Africa North region, is publicly available on GitHub and currently covers the DEV environment, with UAT and PROD stages planned for future iterations.

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