# IDistributedApplicationPipeline

- Module: [Aspire.Hosting](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.md)
- Version: `13.4.0`
- Kind: `interface`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/aspire)

Represents a pipeline for executing deployment steps in a distributed application.

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationPipeline {
  addStep(stepName: string, callback: (arg: PipelineStepContext) => Promise<void>, dependsOn?: string[], requiredBy?: string[]): void;
  configure(callback: (arg: PipelineConfigurationContext) => Promise<void>): void;
  disableBuildOnlyContainerValidation(): IDistributedApplicationPipeline;
}
```

## Methods

- [addStep](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting/idistributedapplicationpipeline/addstep.md) -- `method` -- Adds an application-level pipeline step in a TypeScript-friendly shape.
    ```typescript
  addStep(stepName: string, callback: (arg: PipelineStepContext) => Promise<void>, dependsOn?: string[], requiredBy?: string[]): void
  ```
- [configure](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting/idistributedapplicationpipeline/configure.md) -- `method` -- Registers a pipeline configuration callback in a TypeScript-friendly shape.
    ```typescript
  configure(callback: (arg: PipelineConfigurationContext) => Promise<void>): void
  ```
- [disableBuildOnlyContainerValidation](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting/idistributedapplicationpipeline/disablebuildonlycontainervalidation.md) -- `method` -- Disables the publish and deploy validation that requires build-only containers to be consumed by another resource.
    ```typescript
  disableBuildOnlyContainerValidation(): IDistributedApplicationPipeline
  ```