What is the YAML equivalent to release pipelines?

Question

I've been looking into Azure DevOps and I'm puzzled by something: Microsoft seem to be strongly recommending the use of YAML pipelines instead of classic ones; fair enough, but they need to replace all the functionality that was in classic pipelines. How am I meant to replace the "release pipeline" functionality with YAML pipelines?

So for example, with classic release pipelines, I could setup a pipeline to deploy to production that had a manual trigger (see 'Manually by a user'):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/triggers?view=azure-devops#pull-request-triggers

What's the YAML pipeline equivalent to this? I obviously don't want a trigger that automatically deploys to production - I always want that deployment to be initiated strictly manually - but the help article doesn't seem to provide any YAML alternative.

Answer 1

@Jeremy Morton you can still use classic pipelines by clicking the link (see image below). To answer your question though, a Manually by a user would be setting trigger: none in the yaml. See this doc for more information.