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DevOps & Automation · Foundational

Release Pipeline

The portion of a delivery pipeline responsible for deploying approved artifacts to environments and managing releases.

Definition

Release pipelines handle environment-specific configuration, approvals, deployment strategies, and release notes. In Azure DevOps, classic release pipelines are being superseded by multi-stage YAML pipelines.

Example

A release pipeline deploys build 245 to QA, waits for test sign-off, then deploys to production.

Exam tip

For new Azure DevOps work, multi-stage YAML pipelines are preferred over classic releases.

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