'Azure DevOps Deferred / Scheduled Pipeline Run

With Release pipelines in Azure DevOps, you can set a pre-deployment approval for a stage.

When it is approved, the approver can choose to deploy it now, or defer the deployment for later.

I would like to be able to do something similar for other (non-release) pipelines.

I would like to be able to trigger a pipeline (including defining any required input variables), but defer its execution until a specific time.

I don't want a repeating schedule -- I want to be able to run it one time, at a specific time, with a specific set of input variables.

Is there any way to do this?

I am running Azure Devops Server.

azure-pipelines

Solution 1:^[1]

There is no option to defer builds.

As workaround. You can add a variable like defer_seconds. Then use it (as an example) in PowerShell script in your build:

Start-Sleep -s $(defer_seconds)

Do not forget to increase your agent build timeout:

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Solution 1	Shamrai Aleksander