Managing environments

In this section, you will learn about how to create environments and deploy to them.

Configuring environments

In this section, you will define the environments in Azure Pipelines, which will be logical representations of the deployment targets. This will allow us to add approval and checks to control how the pipeline advances from one stage to the next:

1. You start by clicking on the Environments option under Pipelines in the main menu on the left, as follows:

Figure 9.7 – Accessing the Environments option in the menu

2. If you have no environments, you will see a screen like the following; click on Create environment:

Figure 9.8 – Creating your first environment

Otherwise, you will see a New environment option in the top-right part of the screen above your existing environments.

3. Once the pop-up screen shows up to create the new environment, enter test for Name...