When following the online guid for pipeline setup, the azure pipelines release.yml specifies environments named
St,sit,uat, and prod.
When attempting to run the pipeline I would receive an error saying environments don't exist. My azuredevops locked down environment creation right from the pipeline so it is required to be created first.
Once I had IT create the environments, the release pipeline resolved and able to run.
I suggest updating the documentation to point out environment creation may be needed.