Guides.

Practical walkthroughs for Azure DevOps deployment workflows — from linking work items to branches through to queuing pipelines from a ticket.

Azure Boards and work items

Deploy an Azure Pipeline from a work item How to queue an Azure Pipeline directly from an Azure Boards work item using BranchDeploy or the manual method. Link a work item to a branch or pull request How Azure Boards work items connect to Azure Repos branches and PRs, and why those links matter for deployments.

Azure Repos branches and Azure Pipelines

Deploy a specific Azure Repos branch with Azure Pipelines Options for deploying a particular branch to staging, UAT, QA, or preview using Azure Pipelines.

Also see

Azure Boards deployment extension — product page → Security and permissions → Setup documentation → Branch allowlists →

Install Free forever for one project.

Ready to ship?

Install the Marketplace extension, add your pipeline ID, and deploy from a work item in minutes.

$ az devops extension install --name branchdeploy

Install free ↗

Requirements

Azure Repos + Azure Pipelines.
Permission to queue the pipeline.
No BranchDeploy account needed (Free).

Setup

Install the extension.
Open Project Settings → BranchDeploy.
Enter your pipeline ID and save.

Free tier

One project, one environment.
Queues as your Azure DevOps session.
Completely free, forever.

Pro

Multiple projects and environments.
90-day audit log.
Branch allowlists per environment.
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