Using Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is one of the services offered by Azure DevOps. It was previously known as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

Azure DevOps is a complete DevOps platform provided by Microsoft that is fully accessible via a web browser and requires no installation. It is very useful for following reasons:

• The DevOps tools manage its code in Version Control System (VCS)
• It manages a project in agile mode
• It deploys applications in a CI/CD pipeline, to centralize packages
• It performs manual test plans

Each of these features is combined into services that are summarized in this table:

Service name	Description	Documentation link
Azure Repos	It is a SCV, which we looked at in the previous chapter.	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos/
Azure Boards	It is a service for project management in agile mode with sprints, backlogs...