From the course: Continuous Delivery with Azure DevOps
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Tasks
- [Instructor] Now let's talk about tasks. What exactly are tasks in a release? They're the building blocks for defining automation in a release. Basically, they're nothing more than a packaged script or procedure that have been abstracted with a set of inputs. They can be versioned, which means you can generate your own tasks, you can write your own tasks, you can actually take tasks that are open-sourced already and enhance those tasks, and you can version control them. There's a lot of them that are available from Microsoft on the GitHub repositories, so there are ways in which you can get tasks and version control them, and modify those as needed. And lastly, they're also available in the Marketplace, the Visual Studio Marketplace, where you can go and you can download and install those for free, or some have a cost associated with them, but it lets you know in the Marketplace. But the big thing to remember is that tasks are those building blocks. You create stages, and inside…
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