Setting up our production environment in the CI/CD pipeline

Perform the following steps to set up a production environment in the CI/CD pipeline:

1. Go to the Azure DevOps project you worked on previously and revisit the Pipelines | Releases section to view your Port Weather ML Pipeline. We will enhance this pipeline by creating a production stage.
2. Click on the Edit button to get started and click on Add under the DEV TEST stage, as shown in the following screenshot:

   Figure 10.6 – Adding a new stage

3. Clicking the Add button under the DEV TEST stage will prompt you to select a template to create a new stage. Select EMPTY JOB option (under Select a template text) and name the stage production or PROD and save it, as shown in the following screenshot:

   Figure 10.7 – Adding and saving the production stage (PROD)

4. A new production stage named PROD will be created. Now, you can configure jobs and processes at the production stage. To configure jobs for PROD,...