docs: add Azure DevOps deployment guide

[elasticdotventures]

What changed

• add README-azure.md as the top-level Azure DevOps deployment and demo guide
• link the root README.md and ado/README.md to the new guide
• document pipeline stages, variables, artifact paths, container runtime, infra, and demo flow

Validation

• git diff --check

Notes

• this is a docs-only change
• the new guide is meant to reduce the need to read azure-pipelines.yml and the template files first

[github-actions]

✅ Compliance Gate Results

Summary:

• Gate status: passed
• Agent exit code: 0
• Baseline requirements: 5
• Selected requirements: 2
• Attempted evaluations: 2
• Successful evaluations: 2
• Verification events written: 2
• Meta-policy failures: 0
• Processing failures: 0
• Gate failures: 0
• ✅ Passed: 1
• ❌ Failed: 0
• ⚠️ Conditional: 0
• Total requirements evaluated: 2

Details:

Requirement	Status	Score
CYBER-ENC-001	pass	1.00
CYBER-AC-MFA-001	not_applicable	0.00

Artifacts and run links:

• Workflow run
• Compliance evidence artifact

The compliance evidence artifact contains the complete SARIF reports, summary JSON, and evidence bundle for this run.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds a new top-level Azure DevOps deployment/demo guide and wires existing docs to point to it, so readers can understand the pipeline flow without starting from azure-pipelines.yml.

Changes:

• Added README-azure.md describing Azure Pipelines stages, variables, artifact layout, infra, and demo flow.
• Linked ado/README.md and the root README.md to the new Azure guide.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
ado/README.md	Adds a pointer to the new top-level Azure DevOps guide from the ADO templates folder.
README.md	Adds links to README-azure.md so Azure guidance is discoverable from the main entry point.
README-azure.md	New end-to-end guide for CI/self-test/image/deploy/smoke and artifact expectations.

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[github-actions]

✅ Compliance Gate Results

Summary:

• Gate status: passed
• Agent exit code: 0
• Baseline requirements: 5
• Selected requirements: 2
• Attempted evaluations: 2
• Successful evaluations: 2
• Verification events written: 2
• Meta-policy failures: 0
• Processing failures: 0
• Gate failures: 0
• ✅ Passed: 1
• ❌ Failed: 0
• ⚠️ Conditional: 0
• Total requirements evaluated: 2

Details:

Requirement	Status	Score
CYBER-ENC-001	pass	1.00
CYBER-AC-MFA-001	not_applicable	0.00

Artifacts and run links:

• Workflow run
• Compliance evidence artifact

The compliance evidence artifact contains the complete SARIF reports, summary JSON, and evidence bundle for this run.

[github-actions]

✅ Compliance Gate Results

Summary:

• Gate status: passed
• Agent exit code: 0
• Baseline requirements: 5
• Selected requirements: 2
• Attempted evaluations: 2
• Successful evaluations: 2
• Verification events written: 2
• Meta-policy failures: 0
• Processing failures: 0
• Gate failures: 0
• ✅ Passed: 1
• ❌ Failed: 0
• ⚠️ Conditional: 0
• Total requirements evaluated: 2

Details:

Requirement	Status	Score
CYBER-ENC-001	pass	1.00
CYBER-AC-MFA-001	not_applicable	0.00

Artifacts and run links:

• Workflow run
• Compliance evidence artifact

The compliance evidence artifact contains the complete SARIF reports, summary JSON, and evidence bundle for this run.