Question

Your team uses a multi-stage YAML pipeline in Azure Pipelines. The production stage targets an Environment that has a manual approval check configured. You set the approval to time out after 24 hours. During a weekend release, no approver responds within the 24-hour window. Compliance requires that any un-actioned production deployment must NOT proceed and must not silently linger indefinitely. Which timeout behavior and configuration ensures the deployment is stopped when the approval expires?

Accepted Answer

When the approval timeout is reached, the check times out and the stage is automatically rejected, causing the deployment run to fail.

Answer

When the approval timeout is reached, the deployment automatically proceeds because the timeout only limits how long approvers can respond before auto-approval.

Answer

When the approval timeout is reached, the run is paused indefinitely until an administrator manually cancels it.

Answer

When the approval timeout is reached, the check is skipped and the stage runs with a warning logged to the pipeline summary.