Azure pipelines

[strong quiver]

Please which effective way of doing a Pull Request validation with azure devops pipelines there is?. Here’s my case, I have a nextjs frontend and drupal backend that are going to be hosted using containerisation(production). But before any feature branch is merged into any of main, staging, dev branches I would like to do a Pull Request validation. So here’s my idea:
Define a yaml pipeline to run build, test and run security scans/checks on a PR before any merging takes place. So it is going to have maybe stages or jobs for:

1. Build
2. Test
3. Scan

One of the things I’m confused about is the building and testing, should I build it(the feature branch) into docker image and run it in maybe, something like azure app service, or I should just build and run it like that, not using docker method(especially for the nextjs). Point of this is to test whether the code works first, ensure nothing is broken before it is merged.

And please if there is any other alternative method or test or the entire workflow, please do tell. Thank you

[signal mantle]

So you're wondering if you should do a pr > build & deploy with docker to app service?

Typically you'd just have a pr request > build stage for your code within docker or non-docker > code scan > deployment to environment

[strong quiver]

Yeah this is what I eventually went with, thank you

Do you know any free tool to sync Jira with azure board, such that issues on Jira board appear on azure board?

[signal mantle]

I haven't ran into a use case for that

You can probably a create custom if there's not one