Parameters for import configuration
The import step of the Microsoft Build Tools has a lot of options for configuration. Different combinations of these options can improve the import time or change the behavior completely.
It is important to know the impacts of those configurations. Therefore, this is an area I would recommend diving more into.
As soon as you have understood the impacts, another recommendation is to add some of them as parameters to your release pipeline. With that, you can change the behavior of your pipeline whenever you start a new run. This could be, for example, whether you would like to execute an update or upgrade (as discussed in Chapter 4). The idea is that we can change the behavior without needing to actually change the YAML.
