Understanding Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is one of the components of Azure DevOps, a CI/CD platform offered by Microsoft. It helps organizations automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software.

Here’s how it works in simple terms:

1. Code is pushed to a source control repository, such as Git.
2. Azure Pipelines is triggered by this code change and performs a series of steps as defined in the pipeline.
3. Build: The code is compiled and turned into artifacts, such as executables or Docker images.
4. Test: Automated tests are run on the artifacts to verify that the application works as expected.
5. Deploy: If the tests pass, the artifacts are deployed to the desired environment, such as a production server or a staging environment, for further testing

Azure Pipelines helps automate the entire software delivery process, from building and testing code changes to deploying to production. This helps reduce manual errors, speed up delivery...