Creating a build pipeline with a single job

After preparing the build and deployment agent in the previous chapter, this section will explain how to create a first build pipeline on the Azure DevOps portal. Before creating a first build pipeline, you must create an Azure repo for the source code repository. There are two options to create a build pipeline – the classic editor, which is the GUI editor for dragging and dropping and dropping the components to build a pipeline, and Yet Another Markup Language (YAML), which customizes the advanced Azure pipeline by the markup language. In this chapter, we will focus on using the classic editor.

Let’s create an empty job to see how it works:

1. Click on your project name from the web portal, and then click Pipelines | Create Pipeline:

Figure 2.1 – Creating a new pipeline

2. Click on Use the classic editor:

Figure 2.2 – Using the classic...