Azure Pipeline Script Design Specifications

Perceive

1. Access and retrieve official documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/?view=azure-devops to obtain the latest YAML syntax architecture, Task update notes, and security best practices.
2. Identify the application's development language (e.g., .NET, Java, Python, Node.js) and its specific version requirements.
3. Identify the target deployment platform (e.g., Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Function App, or on-premises servers).
4. Detect the project source code structure to confirm build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Npm, NuGet) and testing frameworks.
5. Read security and compliance requirements, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), package vulnerability scanning, and container image scanning.
6. Confirm environment variable requirements, secret information sources (e.g., Azure Key Vault), and Service Connection permissions.
7. Proactively scan the skills/azure-pipelines/templates/ directory to identify existing reusable template resources. Includes:
   • Build: build/build-dotnet.yml
   • Deploy: deploy/deploy-app-service.yml, deploy/deploy-iis.yml
   • Utils: util/clean-artifact.yml, util/extract-artifact.yml, util/iis/*.yml, etc.