New Manual Validation Task for YAML Pipelines

Even though YAML pipelines could be setup to wait for approvals based on environment approvals and checks, setting up a manual intervention task which was available to classic release pipelines, was not supported in YAML deployment pipelines till the latest feature release to Azure DevOps. With the introduction of new Manual Validation Task specifically supporting only YAML pipelines, now you can wait for resume/reject with an agentless job, during the YAML pipeline execution. Let’s look at how this new task works.

Create Windows or Linux Consumption Plan Using Azure CLI

While creating a function app with Azure CLI we can let it dynamically create a consumption plan, which would be created with a default name. However, if you want to have more control over naming of the consumption plan, it is better to create the consumption plan as a sperate step. Looking and Azure CLI documentation does not provide clear information on how to create a consumption plan. Therefore, let’s explore the needed commands to get a consumption plan on Windows or Linux platforms in this post.