Azure DevOps pipeline expression functions enable the creation of powerful Azure DevOps YAML pipelines to achieve various advanced automation needs for build and deployment purposes. This blog explains how to use the if condition with pipeline variable values.
In an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline, a variable if condition can be defined as follow
iif(condition, the_value_returns_when_condition_true, the_value_returns_when_condition_false)
Credential based authentication methods have several disadvantages such as security risks and secret management overhead. As a solution Azure Managed Identity and Azure Workload Identity can be used as modern and secure, non-credential-based authentication method for workloads running outside or inside Azure.
Workload Identity Federation can now be used with Azure DevOps Docker service connection targeting Azure Container Registry. This blog will explain how to use workload Identity with Azure DevOps Docker service connection.
