Pipelines

Pipelines in Azure

Now that you know about CI/CD, let’s dive into what pipelines are in Azure DevOps and how they can be used in a CI/CD context. You’ll get a full, end-to-end example of building an Azure pipeline in the chapter project, but it’s important to first get a brief overview of creating a simple pipeline.

At the time of writing this, Microsoft is in the process of moving from traditional pipelines, which had a CI (build) and a CD (release) process, into one pipeline for both. We will cover YAML-based pipelines in this chapter, which is the one pipeline for both because that’s the direction that Microsoft is heading in. ...