sharpliner VS AzurePipelinesSamples

I didn't appreciate developing Azure Pipelines in YAML so I've created a library that lets you use C# instead.

Aside the apparent advantages of the strong typed environment, I was able to bake in many more features that make your life easier. Code reuse is also super easy.

https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner

I use a library called Sharpliner (https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner) which lets you use C# instead of YAML. It has features around sourcing scripts that you might appreciate - it can take scripts from embedded resources and inline them in the YAML which gives you best of the both worlds:

Second, you might be into this: https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner

For some of the problems you mention (variable contexts), there are some things that can be done (e.g. https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner/issues/125).

In case you're just starting with YAML pipelines and you are using C# (which it seems you do), you can have a look at Sharpliner (https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner) which lets you use C# for pipelines. Sharpliner contains some useful shortcuts/macros such as If.IsPullRequest or If.IsBranch("main"), potentially If.And(IsPullRequest, IsBranch("main")) which makes this more readable and easy to use.

I did sort of explore this possibility here: https://github.com/sharpliner/sharpliner/issues/7

BTW grab a few links I find useful when writing advanced pipelines in YAML: 1. https://azuredevopsdemogenerator.azurewebsites.net/ 2. https://github.com/oskardudycz/WebApiWith.NET#azure-devops-pipelines 3. https://github.com/oskardudycz/AzurePipelinesSamples 4. https://thomasthornton.cloud/?s=Pipelines 5. https://dev.azure.com/jamesstill/_git/TimeApi?path=%2Fazure-pipelines.yml 6. https://squarewidget.com/json-variable-substitution-in-multi-stage-yaml-pipeline-with-azure-key-vault/ 7. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/file-transform?view=azure-devops