Templates in Azure Pipelines: What, Why, and How

This is an Introduction to YAML Templates in Azure Pipelines.

Templates in Azure Pipelines are very powerful tools, that allow you to reuse your code in multiple Azure Pipelines.

Do you want to know how to use Pipelines template? We will answer the most common questions about Templates in Azure Pipelines: What, Why, and How

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0:00 Intro
0:26 What are YAML Templates
1:37 Why YAML Templates - Alignment
2:14 Consistency and Speed
3:09 Centralized Editing
3:38 Simplicity
4:00 Using Steps, Jobs, and Stages Templates
8:28 Passing Parameters to a Template
10:22 Parameters from Output Variables
12:04 Conclusions
12:26 Bloopers

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[CoderDave]

✨ *Question of the day* ✨What do you use or plan to use Azure Pipelines Templates for?

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[Chatsworth]

Now I understand why YAML build files are so important, and why the "visually defined" build definitions I like so well on Azure Devops are not the preferred way. Nice vid, +1, thanks.

[schedarr]

That is exactly what I needed yesterday, great timing.

[Renn_lab]

Your videos are the best! Always on point. Thank you

[serenaS]

It's super useful to learn yaml Azure Pipelines. Will follow the next classes for sure.

[danakm]

HI Dave, excellent video series here!
I have a use case where I have a project with several repositories, each repo with their own build pipelines that publish artifacts. I want a single release pipeline, that downloads artifacts from all of my other repositories, and on run-time I want to pick and choose which artifacts would I like to create a release for. Can you please share what would be a good approach to do this?

[priyankaagarwal]

Was looking forward for the deep dive video .. can we assign values to parameters at runtime . ?

[AkshayKumar-rebf]

Hi Dave, can you do another video on checkout to other repo, i saw your 3min video on this but i got errors after the checkout job(no files matching), can you do a brief video on how to do check out. that will be very much helpful..
Thanks dave for all your content

[marcoparenzan]

Great video. One question. As a company use and reuse templates in many different projects, where do they typically collect templates? Do they use one specific project in a collection to store all templates? Or is there any other practice?

[pshah]

Hi Dave, Thanks great start-up for YAML templates. I like the way you explain the complex topic in simplified way. I was looking for all your videos on YAML and also on moving existing application from VM to docker containers, I subscribed to your channel but could not locate your videos specific to these subjects. Do you have or can create a playlist for both topics? I also have access to LinkedIn learning and PluralSight. If you can recommend something there or if you have something like that on Channel9, please let me know.

[sahasra]

How to define a template if it is used across repositories? Seems templates need to be stored in one specific repository. My intention is to achieve something similar to task group which is stored in server and can be used across pipelines...

[drreaux]

Can you reference a template file from other repos? (Like a master template repo)

[bharathinayak]

how can i download above yaml files ?

[JoshStaffordD]

Thanks, that was really helpful. A tip for you though, template is pronounced with a schwa sound not a long a. So it rhymes with flit, and doesn't sound like plate. Though perhaps in British english, that would be correct.

[mr.hgorgan]

man this is way more complicated than it seems, it's giving me headaches aaarghhhh. But thanks for the video tho