[ARROW-3253] [CI] Investigate Azure CI

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Component/s: C++, Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 17/Sep/18 17:41
• Updated: 08/Jul/19 20:00
• Resolved: 03/Jul/19 16:06

Description

C++ builds on AppVeyor have become slower and slower. Some of it may be due to the parquet-cpp repository merge, but I also suspect CPU resources on AppVeyor have become much tighter.

We should perhaps investigate Microsoft's Azure CI services as an alternative:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/devops/pipelines/

Issue Links

• supercedes: ARROW-3224 CI: Consider using azure pipelines?
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2674