Azure Pipelines with YAML – introduction

I mentioned several times, my favorite area is the automation. I like to make automation stuff because that is the best way to make other’s life easier. 🙂 Maybe you remember, last year I published a series which title was E2E Python solution in DevOps (Azure DevOps).

Since then the capabilities of Azure DevOps is better than ever. I like to use it for Scrum management, code repository, CI/CD activities, etc. And two days ago Microsoft announced another cool thing: General Availability of YAML CD features in Azure Pipelines. Why is this so important? Because from now you can use your YAML knowledge to create great CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. 🙂

As Microsoft highlighted:

YAML CD features introduces several new features that are available for all organizations using multi-stage YAML pipelines. Some of the highlights include.

Therefore I’ve decided to start to create some solutions with YAML in Azure DevOps, and I’ll provide you as a guide to use it in your daily job.

If you are not familiar in this topic, and you feel you need some “training”, you can find some useful information here:

• YAML
• What is Azure Pipelines?
• Use Azure Pipelines

So the next automation related post I’ll bring a YAML based pipeline solution for you to discover the capabilities of YAML based pipelines.

If you have any idea or recommendation about scenarios we should implement, feel free to contact me. And get in touch if you are struggling any automation related topic.

Thanks for reading. See you soon. 😉