From the course: Developing CI/CD Solutions with Azure DevOps

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Key concepts of Azure Pipelines

Key concepts of Azure Pipelines

- [Instructor] Azure Pipelines is simply an automation tool that replaces the manual process of building and deploying software applications. But this tool has several components which we will learn in a bit. In Azure DevOps, there is the build and release pipeline. To access Azure DevOps, you can visit dev.azure.com and sign up or sign in with your Outlook account. I'm already logged into my DevOps account and I've opened the sample project. To access the build and release pipeline, you can hover your mouse on the Pipelines icon and here you would have the pipelines and releases. If you want to create an automated workflow to build and test your software application, you use Pipelines. So let's click Pipelines and then click on New pipeline. Here you define the continuous integration process of your application, and if you're defining the pipeline using YAML syntax, then you can also define the continuous deployment process…

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