Easily Navigate Large Azure DevOps Pipelines

When an Azure DevOps pipeline contains hundreds of stages, navigating the pipeline UI can become challenging for several reasons.

• * Finding a specific stage among hundreds can be difficult.
• * Extensive horizontal and vertical scrolling is often required.
• * Failed stages are harder to identify in a large pipeline.
• * Navigation more difficult for users.

To address these challenges, Azure DevOps has introduced a new feature that makes navigating large pipelines much easier.

Prerequisites:

An Azure DevOps pipeline with multiple stages.

Working with Unskippable Stages in Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps pipelines have several stages, and we can use these stages to fulfill various specific automation requirements. However, there can be stages that should not be skipped during the deployment process for any reason. For example, some organizations may have a policy that it is mandatory to run automated tests before deployment, or it is mandatory to run a security scan stage. By default, Azure DevOps allows its users to skip stages when initiating a new pipeline run. Now, Azure DevOps has introduced a new property that can be used with YAML pipelines to disable the option to skip stages during the pipeline creation.

Pre-requisites:

Azure DevOps YAML pipeline with multiple stages