Continuous delivery in Azure VMSS is retiring on March 31st, 2023

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Continuous delivery in Azure VMSS is retiring on March 31st, 2023

Deprecation ID: 6d697b34-5b4f-450d-a1f6-c056b5141a2d Deadline: Mar 31, 2023 Impacted Services:

• Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

More information:

• Announcement

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

On 31 March 2023 Azure Continuous delivery setting of Virtual Machine Scale Set will be retired. Please start using Azure DevOps to directly create pipelines by that date.

Note that all the pipelines created will still be available and functional in Azure DevOps portal. Only the experience of creating/viewing the Azure DevOps pipeline from Azure portal will be retired.

We encourage you to make the switch sooner to familiarize yourself with the Azure DevOps portal and its extensive capabilities.

From now through 31 March 2023, you can continue to create and view pipelines from Continuous delivery setting of a Virtual Machine Scale Set in Azure portal. After 31 March 2023, this setting will not be available to use.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 21, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Mar 31, 2023	Setting will no longer be available.

Impact

Continuous delivery in Azure VMSS is retiring on March 31st, 2023 and migration to Azure DevOps / Pipelines is required.

Required Action

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To avoid disruptions to your workflow, start using Azure DevOps before 31 March 2023. You can familiarize yourself with the creation of customized pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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