Is it possible to define resources with dependencies in Azure Pipelines YAML

Question

Is it possible to create a resource container that depends on another resource container and define that dependency through YAML? So something similar to depends_on in docker compose. For example, kafka is dependent on zookeper and I would like to use kafka as a service container without having to manually run zookeper and then run kafka, if I define it as a service for the job

Answer 1

As of this time, however, depends_on is not supported in Azure DevOps pipeline.

Instead, you can use Volume.

Volumes are useful for sharing data between services, or for persisting data between multiple runs of a job.

You can specify volume mounts as an array of volumes. Volumes can either be named Docker volumes, anonymous Docker volumes, or bind mounts on the host.

Answer 2

It turns out that the containers are created in the order they are defined, so by specifying zookeper before kafka in the resource and in the service stanzas did the trick.