Learn to set up Azure App Service slots for staging and production, design a multi-stage release pipeline, and implement pre-deployment approvals to pause production until authorized.

Create a Dockerfile to containerize a dotnet core app, extract the project name from the exe, and build, push, and deploy to Azure Container Registry and Azure Container App Service.

Create a build pipeline that packages the helm chart as an artifact and deploys to the AKS cluster via helm, with images pushed to Azure Container Registry.

Learn how to create a basic yaml pipeline in Azure DevOps, including triggers, pool, steps, and tasks, plus generating yaml from classic pipelines and pushing to main.

Learn to use and manage variables in YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps, including pipeline, stage, job, and environment variables, plus runtime, output, predefined, UI-defined, and secret variable groups.

Demonstrates using compile-time expressions and functions in azure devops yaml pipelines, covering comparison, logical, and string functions with practical examples in variables and if conditions.

illustrates compile-time and runtime conditioning in yaml pipelines, using if/else logic, compile-time expressions, and output variables across stages and jobs to control script execution.

Explain how to implement looping in an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline using object parameters to iterate over lists, dictionaries, and a matrix strategy to generate jobs and steps.

Learn to run steps inside container jobs in YAML pipelines, using public or private container images from Docker Hub, ECR, or Azure Container Registry, with container resources and service connections.

Differentiate build artifacts, pipeline artifacts, and Azure Artifacts while learning when to use each, how to publish and download them, and how Azure Artifacts feeds store packages.

Learn how YAML pipeline templates create reusable building blocks in Azure DevOps, using parameterized templates for stages, jobs, steps, and variables, with external shared repos for centralized reuse.

Install the Azure Pipelines agent inside a Kubernetes cluster, set up a Kubernetes pool and namespace, and scale the agent with kubectl using a base64-encoded secret token.

Learn how Azure DevOps uses built-in security groups to enforce least privilege across pipelines, variable groups, and service connections, and how to create a custom security group.