Azure DevOps : how to disable CI trigger on a YAML template pipeline?

Question

In template pipelines you can't place any trigger statement such as trigger: none as specified in Microsoft's docs to disable ci trigger, so I wonder how do you prevent these pipelines from being executed every time you update them or any other yaml file in the same branch?

Answer 1

The pipeline yaml definition now supports disabling all trigers with

trigger: none

Reference

Answer 2

So in the end in a template pipeline you can't state something like trigger: none (to set only manual triggering) and you cannot specify stages or jobs, only steps are allowed (so you can't define any condition to prevent pipeline execution on the job or on the stage).

You have an option to disable the CI trigger by going in the triggers section for the template pipeline and select the following:

I don't like much this option because it means having pipeline configuration that is not captured in the yaml pipeline definition but I found no other way to disable the template pipeline from being triggered every time something (including the pipeline itself) is updated in its branch.

Answer 3

Other answers are fine.

Here is another approach I found. I have a yaml based build pipeline. I did not want to touch the yaml just for disabling the trigger. So I disabled the pipeline as follows.

1. Pick your pipeline and double click to edit it.

2. Go to the settings.

3. Now you should see an option to disable. Note here we are disabling the pipeline, not just disabling trigger to the pipeline.