𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀

Today I explored 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 in Azure DevOps Build Pipelines — a powerful feature that makes pipelines cleaner, reusable, and more maintainable.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽?
A 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 is a collection of pipeline tasks that you can group and reuse across multiple build or release pipelines. Think of it as creating a template block of steps.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀?

• Reusability — define once, use in many pipelines
• Maintainability — update in one place, reflect everywhere
• Cleaner Pipelines — reduces repeated steps
• Standardization — ensures consistent practices across teams

𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲:
Let’s say you always perform these three steps in your pipelines:

• Restore NuGet packages
• Build the solution
• Run tests

You can group them into a 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 and reuse it in any project pipeline without rewriting or copying them again.

𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀? 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀?

𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 #𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 #𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 #𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽𝘀 #𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 #𝗗𝗼𝘁𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 #𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗪𝗵𝗼𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 #𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 #𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗷𝗮𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝘀 #𝗖𝗜_𝗖𝗗