No one connects to prod directly from VS in corporate setup. You do it via pipelines.
It is for when you want to have accountability of deployments and at least what we had in Octopus deploy I could promote versions from test/acc to prod based on triggers or manual click of a button.
So you can have build pipelines separate from actual deploy pipelines and manage artefacts built by the build pipeline. It is required in some environments, but totally useless and waste of time in smaller environments.
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No one connects to prod directly from VS in corporate setup. You do it via pipelines.
It is for when you want to have accountability of deployments and at least what we had in Octopus deploy I could promote versions from test/acc to prod based on triggers or manual click of a button.
So you can have build pipelines separate from actual deploy pipelines and manage artefacts built by the build pipeline. It is required in some environments, but totally useless and waste of time in smaller environments.
I understand what you are saying, but with AI now, I don't see writing a pipeline as a hurdle anymore.