Ballerina is a statically typed, open-source cloud-native programming language developed and supported by WSO2.

With Ballerina, you could easily develop microservices, API endpoints and integrations, and any other application for the cloud. Additionally, Ballerina has all the general-purpose functionalities you could expect from a modern programming language.

Azure pipelines task for Ballerina provides a way to install Ballerina in Azure pipelines and use it in your devops pipelines. You can execute Ballerina CLI commands in your pipelines using this task. This includes building, testing, running, and pushing Ballerina programs.

You can use the following YAML snippet to install Ballerina in your Azure pipeline.

steps:
- task: UseBallerina@1
  inputs:
    version: '2201.6.0'
- script: bal -v
  displayName: 'Ballerina version'

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