Pipelines

• Enable constance flow of changes into production
• Verify if the software is working ok
• Azure Pipelines automatically build and test your code project
• Works great with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Agent: The machine that runs the pipelines
• Microsoft-hosted agents: MS takes care of the maintenance and upgrades
• Self-hosted agents: My own VM with my utilities to run the build environment
• Policies can be created for the utilization of certain agents
• Parallel jobs: Can run multiple builds. Azure paid feature

Pipeline Stages

• Stage has jobs
• Job has steps
• Step is a script or a task

Service Connections

• https://dev.azure.com/hvitoi/my-project/_settings/adminservices
• Service connections are credentials that allow external access. E.g., aks, github, docker registry