Azure Pipelines documentation

Get started

Concept

• What is Azure Pipelines?
• Use Azure Pipelines
• Key concepts for user new to Azure Pipelines
• Classic release pipelines

Quickstart

• Sign up for free
• Create your first pipeline
• Clone or import a pipeline
• Customize your pipeline

Build, deploy, test-any language, any ecosystem

Tutorial

• Container image
• .NET Core apps
• Anaconda
• Android
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Java
• JavaScript & Node.js apps
• Python apps
• PHP
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Key concepts

Concept

• Agents
• Conditions
• Expressions
• Environments
• Jobs
• Runtime parameters
• Stages
• Tasks
• Templates
• Triggers

Reference guidance

Reference

• YAML schema
• Predefined variables
• Release & artifacts variables
• Variable groups
• Task index

Build any repository

How-To Guide

• GitHub
• Azure Repos Git
• Team Foundation version control
• Bitbucket Cloud
• Subversion
• Generic Git

Tutorial

• Build multiple Git branches

Deploy to Azure

Overview

• Deploy to Azure

Tutorial

• Connect to Azure
• Deploy to Azure SQL Database
• Deploy to Azure using VS Code
• Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service
• Use secrets from Azure Key Vault

Manage agents & self-hosted agents

How-To Guide

• Deploy on Windows
• Microsoft-hosted agents
• Self-hosted Linux agents
• Self-hosted macOS agents

Set up continuous testing

Tutorial

• Configure for UI testing
• UI testing using Selenium
• Review code coverage results
• Review test results
• Manage flaky tests
• Analyze test results

Configure resources

How-To Guide

• Create and manage agent pools
• Create and manage deployment groups
• Create and manage service connections
• Set build and release retention policies
• Automate infrastructure deployments with Terraform

Troubleshoot

How-To Guide

• Troubleshoot builds and releases
• Run a release in debug mode
• Troubleshoot Azure Resource Manager service connections

Publish packages

Tutorial

• Publish NuGet feeds
• Publish symbols for debugging
• Publish and download Universal Packages

Integrate with other apps

How-To Guide

• Integrate with Slack
• Integrate with Microsoft Teams
• Integrate with service hooks