Azure Pipelines · Authentication Profile

Microsoft Azure Pipelines Authentication

Authentication

Azure Pipelines secures its APIs with http across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

AutomationBuildCI/CDDeploymentDevOpsPipelines
Methods: http Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: API key in:

Security Schemes

bearerAuth http
scheme: bearer
basicAuth http
scheme: basic

Source

Authentication Profile

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/azure-pipelines-build-api-openapi.yml, openapi/azure-pipelines-rest-api-openapi.yml
summary:
  types:
  - http
schemes:
- name: bearerAuth
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  description: Azure AD OAuth 2.0 bearer token with vso.build scope
  sources:
  - openapi/azure-pipelines-build-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/azure-pipelines-rest-api-openapi.yml
- name: basicAuth
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  description: Basic authentication using a Personal Access Token (PAT)
  sources:
  - openapi/azure-pipelines-build-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/azure-pipelines-rest-api-openapi.yml