Build and Release Agents

The build system in Azure DevOps Server known as Azure Pipelines is an open source, cross-platform, extensible, task-based execution system with a rich web interface that allows us to author, queue, and monitor builds. The new JSON-based build system was first introduced in TFS 2015, and it has since been rewritten for the .NET Core CLR as one code base in C#. The modern platform continues to evolve through the open source ecosystem, with new features and enhancements rolling out every other week. The build system is set to evolve further with the new multi-phase builds and a build-definition-as-code functionality that was introduced through YAML-based builds in Azure DevOps. These features have been recently introduced into Azure DevOps Server with the update 1 of Azure DevOps server 2019. In the following screenshot you can see the evolution...