Azure DevOps: Continuous Delivery with YAML Pipelines

Course details

Azure pipelines can now be defined in YAML files, which can be managed and evolved to meet modern continuous delivery requirements. YAML pipelines are versioned with your code, allowing you to easily identify issues and roll back changes. A key skill for DevOps engineers, YAML pipelines are also a key topic on the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. In this course, Mike Benkovich covers the YAML pipeline development workflow in Azure, including creating and editing pipelines; adding jobs, tasks, and steps; customizing workflows with triggers and variables; and deploying jobs and stages. Along the way, learn how to leverage templates, variable libraries, PowerShell and Bash scripts, and containers in your Azure pipelines for maximum efficiency and functionality.

Learning objectives
Convert classic pipelines to YAML pipelines.
Edit YAML in the Azure portal.
Customize your workflow and use pipeline templates.
Deploy pipelines.
Manage service connections.

Concepts

Introduction

DevOps and YAML pipelines

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Why Azure Devops
YAML Pipeline Concepts
Starter Build Pipelines
Pipeline YAML basics
Build Pipelines
Jobs, tasks, and steps
Marketplace tasks

Deployment Pipelines

Deploying to Azure
Adding stages to pipelines
Deploy with stages
Variables and scope
Working with variables
Variables and Azure CLI
Infrastructure deployments
Deploying Bicep

CI, CD, Infra and PR Pipelines

Triggers in pipelines
Separating CI and CD
Environments and approvals
Pull requests
Pull request pipelines
PR cleanup

YAML. Deep Dive

Pipeline templates
Adding templates to a project
Variable libraries
Working with variable libraries

Pipeline Patterns with YAML

Pipeline patterns
Working with scripts
Application inflation pipeline
Containers and Kubernetes
Publish documentation library with DocFX

Conclusion

Next steps in your Azure DevOps journey