Azure DevOps Pipelines: YAML TipsI Wish I Knew Earlier
@ntlamMy first YAML pipeline was 300 lines of copy-pasted stages nobody understood.
Templates are not optional at scale
Extract repeated stages into templates early — the moment you have two pipelines, you have a maintenance problem waiting to happen.
A pipeline nobody can read is a pipeline nobody will fix.
The debugging trick that saves hours
Running pipeline stages locally with a container matching the build agent catches most YAML mistakes before they cost a CI run.
