How to streamline GitHub API calls in Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is a cloud-based CI/CD service integrated with GitHub, allowing automated building, testing, and deployment of code stored in GitHub repositories. It supports triggering pipelines via GitHub events like pushes or pull requests and reports job results back to GitHub, enhancing commit health visibility and policy enforcement. Developers can extend functionality using marketplace extensions or GitHub APIs, with GitHub Apps offering the most secure authentication method for machine-to-machine integrations due to their fine-grained permissions and installation-based access. The text details creating a custom Azure DevOps extension to facilitate GitHub App authentication, including setting up service connections and tasks to streamline API calls without manual authentication logic. This integration strengthens security, maintainability, and efficiency across CI/CD workflows, while enabling enriched automation capabilities such as status checks, comments, issue management, and deployment tracking, seamlessly combining GitHub's capabilities with Azure Pipelines for a cohesive DevOps experience.