Build pipelines, branch policies, stages, jobs, tasks, oh my! Azure Pipelines is a powerful technology that empowers teams to perform a variety of CI/CD actions.

Azure Pipelines (sometimes called "YAML Pipelines") are very powerful, but YAML can be unforgiving. Geared towards technologists new to but familiar with Azure Pipelines, this session details strategies and tactics for making the most of pipelines.

This session will describe how to clearly understand the desired results of CI/CD guided by the motivation of the solution and target infrastructure. Based on this understanding, strategies for choosing what goes in a pipeline, stage, or job will be detailed. Tactics on what individual pipelines are necessary and how to make the stages and jobs in each pipeline efficient and effective will round out the session. The session will include examples of common actions in CI/CD, and well-established best practices will be introduced and referenced throughout the session.