Migrating Classic Azure DevOps Pipelines to YAML with Manual Approvals

Moving classic Azure DevOps pipelines to YAML "pipelines as code" has many advantages. Pipelines can be reviewed with pull requests, and we can ensure that our code is always versioned with the exact pipeline that was used to deploy it. However, YAML pipelines were a non-starter for many organizations, because they never had a mechanism for manual deployment approvals... until now. In this video, I'll show you how to convert your classic pipeline to a YAML pipeline that takes advantage of manual approvals, which are now Generally Available. Example code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/jaspecla/AzureDevO...