The Pipelines section

The Pipelines section in the sidebar contains more items than Repos:

• Pipelines — the CI pipelines (build)
• Environments — deployment targets such as acceptance and production
• Releases — the classic visual release pipelines (older system, being replaced by multi-stage YAML)
• Library — variable groups and secure files
• Task groups — reusable task blocks that can be shared across multiple pipelines
• Deployment groups — self-hosted agents grouped per environment

On a new project the Pipelines list is empty.

This article describes the full build of a two-server Windows Server 2022 home lab in Proxmox VE. Together, the two virtual machines provide Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy and a Certificate Authority (ADCS). RDP connections are secured with PKI certificates so the Mac Mini M1 management workstation connects without certificate warnings.

This is part 3 of the series on building a Windows DevOps lab in Proxmox. In part 1 I described how to create a VM, and in part 2 how to prepare the template.

This is part 2 of the series on building a Windows DevOps lab in Proxmox. In part 1 I described how to create the VM. In this article I prepare the VM as a reusable Proxmox template. All future VMs — the CA server, member servers and other roles — will be cloned from this template.

Important: After Sysprep, never start the VM again. If you do, the generalization is consumed and the template must be rebuilt from scratch.

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