Controlling Release Pipelines with Gates and Azure Policy Compliance by @pdtit devblogs.microsoft.com

Imagine the following scenario: You created a CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps, allowing you to deploy Azure Resources. But instead of just running the deployment, you want to integrate security and compliance validation into the Release pipeline. Some real-life use cases I have seen in the field is temporarily blocking deployments to a specific Azure Region because there are known issues in that region; or your deployment is provisioning infrastructure out of an Infra Stage where you want to validate compliance before running the actual Application Stage deployment.