Building a pipeline with GitHub repositories

GitHub is one of the most popular platforms for source control management and often, it's quite common to have scenarios where the code is stored inside a GitHub repository and you want to use Azure DevOps for managing CI/CD.

By using Azure DevOps and the Azure Pipeline service, you can also create pipelines for a repository stored on GitHub, thus triggering a build pipeline on every commit in a branch inside the GitHub repository. We will do this by following these steps:

1. To use Azure Pipelines to build your GitHub repository, you need to add the Azure DevOps extension to your GitHub account. From your GitHub page, select the Marketplace link from the top bar and search for Azure Pipelines. Select the Azure Pipelines extension and click on Set up a plan, as shown in the following screenshot:

   Figure 4.44 – Azure Pipelines on GitHub – setup

2. Select the Free plan, click the Install it for free button, and then...