This document discusses Azure Pipelines and common misconceptions about it. It notes that Azure Pipelines can be used for both cloud and on-premises workloads, not just Microsoft technologies, and that maintaining agents is simplified. The document traces the history of Azure Pipelines and its predecessors. It promotes the benefits of defining pipelines in YAML, including storing them in source control, easy copying between repos, and support in Visual Studio Code. Future improvements may include multi-stage pipelines and releasing directly to environments using YAML.