If you need to create and/or execute pipelines from another Azure DevOps (ADO) pipeline, there’s an ADO extension for the az CLI that will allow us to perform this task, but we will need some preparation steps before running it. Today it’s still a preview characteristic, so it may suffer some changes when reaching general availability.

The first thing you need to know is that there’s a difference between the pipeline definition file, a yaml file, and the actual pipeline that will run. This last one is a logical pointer to the first that is usually created within the web console, but you can also use the CLI or the API to create them.