Azure Pipelines
More info
- Owner
- Microsoft
- Type
- CI/CD service
- License
- Proprietary
- Website
- azure.microsoft.com
The CI/CD half of Azure DevOps — build and deploy pipelines defined in YAML, with free agents for open source.
Its lineage runs back through Visual Studio Team Services to Team Foundation Server, which shows in the terminology. Pipelines are described in azure-pipelines.yml and run on Microsoft-hosted agents or your own machines. It builds Linux and macOS as readily as Windows.
It distinguishes stages, jobs and steps, and has a deployment approval system more developed than most competitors'. In practice it has lost ground to GitHub Actions since Microsoft acquired GitHub.