Question

Your team deploys to a production environment defined in Azure Pipelines. Before any deployment stage targeting this environment runs, compliance requires that an external change-management system (accessible via HTTPS) confirms an approved change ticket exists. The confirmation must be fully automated — no human clicks — and must block the stage until the external system responds successfully. Which environment check should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Add an Invoke REST API check on the environment that calls the change-management API and passes based on the response

Answer

Add a Required reviewers (Approvals) check with the change-management team assigned as approvers

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Add a Business hours check so deployments only proceed during the approved change window

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Add an Exclusive lock check to serialize deployments to the environment