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Azure Pipelines - Stage must contain at least one job with no dependencies

I’m currently migrating an existing CI/CD pipeline build in Azure DevOps from the ‘classic’ build approach to YAML templates.

As part of the migration proces I’m configuring multiple stages where each stage represents a deployment to a specific environment(Development/Test/Acceptance/…) . It’s a typical setup where deployment to the next environment can only start after deployment to a previous environment was successful.

Here is how (a part of) the pipeline looked like:

- stage 'Development'
jobs:
- deployment: DeployExampleDev
displayName: "Deploy Example on development"
# removed other details
- stage: 'AcceptatieExtern'
jobs:
- deployment: DeployExampleAccExt
displayName: "Deploy Example on acceptatie-extern"
dependsOn: 'Development'
condition: succeeded()
# removed other details
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However when I checked if my pipeline was valid, I got the following error message:

Stage AcceptatieExtern must contain at least one job with no dependencies.

Did you notice my mistake? I accidently added the ‘dependsOn’ and ‘condition’ check at the ‘jobs’ level instead of the ‘stage’ level. To fix it, I moved them to the correct location:

- stage 'Development'
jobs:
- deployment: DeployExampleDev
displayName: "Deploy Example on development"
# removed other details
- stage: 'AcceptatieExtern'
dependsOn: 'Development'
condition: succeeded()
jobs:
- deployment: DeployExampleAccExt
displayName: "Deploy Example on acceptatie-extern"
# removed other details
view raw example.yml hosted with ❤ by GitHub

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