Azure DevOps Pipelines
Installation
SKILL.md
Azure DevOps Pipelines
Shared Workflow Routing
- Use the shared workflow spec for deterministic multi-plugin routing:
workflows/multi-plugin-workflows.md.
Overview
Azure Pipelines provides CI/CD for any language, platform, and cloud. YAML pipelines are the recommended approach — version-controlled, code-reviewed, and template-extensible. Classic release pipelines remain supported for existing deployments but should be migrated to YAML multi-stage pipelines for new projects.
Key concepts: stages group jobs, jobs run on agents, steps execute tasks/scripts. Deployment environments provide approval gates, audit history, and resource targeting. Service connections authenticate to external services using Workload Identity Federation (WIF), managed identity, or service principals.