Creating tasks

This section will teach you how to create tasks under a job. A build pipeline will contain one or more jobs, and each job will contain one or more tasks. In the previous section, you created a build pipeline that contains only one job. Follow these steps to create a task:

1. Edit a build pipeline by clicking on three dots symbols, and then on Edit.

Figure 2.12 – Editing a build pipeline

2. After you edit a build pipeline, click on Tasks and then the + symbol, type Command line in the search box, and then click on Add:

Figure 2.13 – Adding a command-line task

3. Click on the Command line task to enter the following details:
   • Display name: First Command Line Task
   • Script: For this demo, we will write a simple script to display the phrase Hello First Task – echo "Hello First Task":

Figure 2.14 – Entering detail on the Command line...