Azure DevOps task to kick off another release pipeline?

Question

In our Azure DevOps deployment we have one "master" release pipeline that generates and runs "child" pipelines. The child pipelines are never run directly.

Currently we kick off the child pipelines using a Powershell script in the master pipeline, but I was wondering if there is a built in task that can do this automatically? I've taken a look at the task list, but nothing jumps out. It's fine if there isn't one, but wanted to ask in case I missed something.

Answer 1

The answer has changed with the latest updates to Azure DevOps.

You should be able to use multi-stage pipelines or jobs that are part of yaml pipelines.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/intelligent-productivity-and-collaboration-from-anywhere/

Refer below to get an idea on how to do this: https://github.com/venura9/azure-devops-yaml

As long as you are using your `dependsOn' correctly you should be good.