New YAML Template Editing Experience in Azure DevOps

Continuous integration and delivery is a mandatory part of today's software development process which can be implemented using several CI/CD tools. Azure DevOps is a tool which can be used to create CI/CD pipelines as classical pipeline or as  YAML pipeline. When you are using YAML pipelines, you might need to use several YAML templates to create a CI/CD pipeline. If you need to do any modifications to the templates, previously you had to select relevant template from the Repo and do the modifications. However, Azure DevOps has introduced new YAML template editor feature which can be used to edit YAML templates easily. 

This blog explains how to work with YAML template editor.

Let's get started.

Modifying Existing Task Groups with the Minimal Impact to Existing Pipelines

Azure DevOps task group is used to group and manage multiple pipeline tasks as a reusable component. While you are working in your projects, there can be requirements to edit existing task group. But, if you directly edit the task group, multiple pipelines get affected by the changes. So, This blog explains how to edit a task group with minimum affect to the existing pipelines.

Prerequisites: 

• Azure DevOps task group use in a pipeline

Let's get started.

Go to Azure DevOps task group section and select a task group. Do changes to the task group and save task group as draft.