What Is Azure Pipelines? Simplified In 200 Words

With its simplistic use, setup and approach, Azure DevOps becomes prime choice for organizations adopting DevOps.

Azure Pipelines caters to the need for creating DevOps pipelines on Azure Cloud Platform.

The pipeline is considered as the core of modern DevOps.

It automates the software delivery process by eliminating the manual errors, resulting in top quality code, fast product iterations and code flexibility.

Azure Pipelines continuously build, test and deploy applications or code on cloud and other platforms.

Azure Pipelines can be used with a diverse languages like – Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, C#, Node.js, Python, .NET, C++, Go, XCode , etc. and can run simultaneously on platform like Mac, Linux or Windows.

Why Azure Pipelines?

It uses rapid, simple and secure method to combine the CI and CD solution to automate the development of the projects.

It helps to:

• Integrate with GitHub
• Handle open source projects
• Integrate with Azure deployments

Key Features:

• Language and platform independent
• Extensible. Supports extensions from Slack to SonarCloud
• Simple integration with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Flexible deployments to Kubernetes, Serverless, VM
• A swift and secure approach for project build automation
• Seamless integration with version control tools