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            "tagline": "Microsoft's build and deployment service inside Azure DevOps",
            "summary": "Azure Pipelines is Microsoft's CI/CD service inside Azure DevOps, for building web, desktop and mobile applications and deploying them to any cloud or on-premises environment. Each Azure DevOps organization gets one free parallel job with 1,800 minutes a month.",
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