Implementing CI

In this section, we are going to complete the implementation of the CI build. We'll also observe the build trigger when code is pushed to our source code repository. Let's carry out the following steps:

  1. In our Azure DevOps project, in the pipeline builds section, click the Edit button to edit the build configuration. The build configuration is defined in a YAML file called azure-pipelines. Azure DevOps lets us edit this file in its YAML editor.
YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML) is commonly used for configuration files because it is a little more compact than JSON and can contain comments.

The following YAML file was generated by the ASP.NET Core build pipeline template:

# ASP.NET Core# Build and test ASP.NET Core projects ...

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