Azure Pipelines and Azure DevOps

Azure Pipelines and Azure DevOps serve as essential tools for enhancing your CI/CD workflows.

Azure Pipelines is a cloud-based service that facilitates build and release automation, enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery for applications.

Azure DevOps integrates with OX Security Scan Extension, providing additional capabilities to Azure DevOps, and extending its functionality by integrating third-party tools and services.

Integrating with OX Security can be achieved through Azure Pipelines for direct CI/CD security measures or using Azure DevOps Extensions for wider functional enhancements, as follows:

• Azure Pipelines Integration: Embeds security into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling automatic vulnerability scanning during builds. This direct integration focuses on improving security within the CI/CD workflow and requires Docker support for executing security checks.

• Azure DevOps Integration: Offers broader customization, allowing the incorporation of third-party tools and services, including security measures. While this provides additional capabilities across Azure DevOps, it's less specialized for CI/CD-specific security than a dedicated Azure Pipelines integration.

Choosing between these integrations depends on your specific needs: if you require streamlined security embedded directly into the CI/CD process, Azure Pipelines is ideal.

For broader DevOps enhancements, including security across various areas, Azure DevOps Extensions are more suitable.