Prevent Checking Out the Repo in CD YAML Pipeline

In the previous post “Trigger Deployment YAML Pipeline Once YAML Build Completed” (https://chamindac.blogspot.com/2020/10/trigger-deployment-yaml-pipeline-from.html) we have discussed how to separate the deployment pipeline from the build pipeline, in Azure DevOps YAML pipeline implementations and to trigger a CD pipeline from the CI build once completed. However, if you check carefully that post implementation of CD it is still checking out the code repository, even though it is not necessary to checkout code being the deployment pipeline. Let’s see how we can avoid checking out repo in the CD YAML.

Problem

CD YAML below checks out the repo.

resources:

  pipelines:

  - pipeline: App_CI  

    project:  YAML_CICD 

    source: App.CI  

    trigger: true

stages:

- stage: Dev

  displayName: Deploy to Dev

  jobs:

  - job: DeployDev

    pool:

      vmImage: 'windows-latest'

    steps:

    - pwsh: |

        Write-Host "Deploy to Dev"

        Write-Host "We do nothing here"

Solution

You can add the below step to prevent check out of the repo in the CD YAML.

The full pipeline would be as below.

Execution of this CD pipeline does not check out repo as you can see blow.