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Azure DevOps organization
The top-level Azure DevOps Services container that connects related projects, users, repositories, pipelines, artifacts, permissions, and organization settings.
Azure DevOps
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Aliases: Azure DevOps org
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Azure DevOps project
A workspace inside Azure DevOps for a team to plan, track, code, build, test, deploy, and collaborate on software delivery.
Azure DevOps
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Aliases: ADO project
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Blue-green deployment
Blue-green deployment is a release strategy that runs two production-capable environments, routes users to the current version, validates the new version, then shifts traffic with minimal downtime.
Deployment workflows
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Canary deployment
Canary deployment is a release approach that sends a small portion of real traffic to a new version before rolling it out broadly.
Deployment workflows
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Container image build
the build step that turns source, Dockerfile instructions, dependencies, and metadata into a container image stored in a registry
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Environment in Azure DevOps
An Azure DevOps environment is a logical collection of resources that a pipeline can target for deployments, approvals, checks, and deployment history.
Azure Pipelines
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4 commands
Aliases: environment in azure devops
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GitHub Actions deployment
GitHub Actions deployment is a repository workflow that publishes application code, containers, or infrastructure changes to Azure after selected GitHub events such as push, pull request, or release. Teams use it to standardize builds, approvals, tests, packaging, and deployment to Azure services without relying on manual portal changes. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers configure App Service Deployment Center, deploy to a slot, use azure/login, run Bicep deployments, or troubleshoot a failed workflow run.
Deployment workflows
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: GitHub Actions deploy, GitHub Actions CI/CD deployment, GitHub workflow deployment
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Image promotion
Image promotion is the controlled process of moving an approved VM or container image version from build or test use into wider production use.
Deployment workflows
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Image promotion, image promotion, image-promotion
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Infrastructure deployment script
Infrastructure deployment script controls how deployment teams run imperative setup, validation, or bridge logic inside an otherwise declarative Azure infrastructure deployment. Teams see it in bicep files, arm templates. It is not a local shell script, a DevOps pipeline task, a custom script extension, or normal template declarative resource creation; confusing them can create hung deployments, leaked script output. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Infrastructure as Code
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: deployment script, ARM deployment script, Bicep deployment script, deploymentScripts resource, scripted IaC step
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Pipeline in Azure DevOps
A pipeline in Azure DevOps is an automated build, test, and deployment workflow. Microsoft Learn describes Azure Pipelines as CI/CD for many languages, platforms, and targets, with YAML or classic definitions that connect source changes to repeatable delivery stages.
CI/CD
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Aliases: Azure Pipelines, ADO pipeline, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline, YAML pipeline, Azure Pipeline, DevOps pipeline
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Policy as Code
Policy as Code means treating Azure guardrails like application code. Instead of clicking policies into existence one subscription at a time, teams write policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, parameters, and exemptions in files, review them in pull requests, test them in lower environments, and deploy them through pipelines. It makes governance repeatable and traceable. A learner should think of it as the difference between a shared checklist and an automated rulebook that can be versioned, approved, rolled back, and proven during audits.
Governance operations
intermediate
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Service connection
Service connection is an Azure DevOps project resource that stores how a pipeline authenticates to Azure or another external service. In Azure Resource Manager connections, it can use workload identity federation, a managed identity, or a service principal so pipeline tasks can deploy safely.
CI/CD
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps service connection, service endpoint, Azure Pipelines service connection, Azure RM service connection
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OIDC federation
OIDC federation in Azure uses workload identity federation to let external workloads exchange trusted identity-provider tokens for Microsoft identity platform access tokens. It removes long-lived secrets for supported scenarios such as GitHub Actions, Kubernetes workloads, Azure Pipelines, and other external compute platforms.
CI/CD security
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: OpenID Connect federation, workload identity federation, federated identity credential, secretless CI/CD authentication
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Release pipeline
A release pipeline promotes build artifacts through controlled deployment stages with tasks, approvals, variables, gates, and deployment history.
CI/CD
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6 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps release, classic release pipeline, release definition
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Repository
In Azure DevOps, a repository is a Git source-control location that stores files, branches, commits, tags, and pull requests for a project. Azure Repos repositories can be created, imported, protected with policies, and used as the source for build and release pipelines. and delivery governance.
Source control
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Repos repository, Git repository, repo, source repository, Azure DevOps repo
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Variable group
A variable group stores reusable Azure Pipelines variables and protected secrets that approved pipelines can consume during builds or releases.
CI/CD
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Pipelines variable group, pipeline variable group, DevOps variable group, shared pipeline variables
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GitHub Actions for Azure
GitHub Actions for Azure is the set of GitHub workflow patterns and Azure actions used to sign in, build, test, package, deploy, and manage Azure resources from a repository. Teams use it to connect source control to Azure deployments while keeping workflow steps, identities, approvals, and release evidence in versioned automation. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers use azure/login, deploy web apps or functions, run Azure CLI scripts, deploy Bicep, push containers, or configure OIDC federation.
CI/CD
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure GitHub Actions, Azure actions, azure/login, GitHub Actions for Azure
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Rolling upgrade
AKS node-pool upgrade pattern that drains and replaces nodes in controlled batches to protect workload availability.
Deployment workflows
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: AKS rolling upgrade, node pool rolling upgrade, rolling node upgrade, AKS node pool upgrade, Kubernetes rolling upgrade
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