Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily

When using the Azure DevOps REST API to create Teams and add users, you may want to set the administrators as well at the same time. However, this REST API is not well documented on the Microsoft documentation site for the REST API. With some searching and mapping of resources, I have below the methodContinueContinue reading “Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily”

Download files and folders from Azure DevOps 

If you have a large repository it can be a long wait on the pipeline to get it checked out, only to use a few files. In this post, I will guide you through using PowerShell to download only the files you need with either the Azure DevOps REST API or CLI.  API Service  InContinueContinue reading “Download files and folders from Azure DevOps “

Automating SemVer Versioning

Application versioning is a key principle in the DevOps lifecycle, this is to ensure both users and software providers can easily tack any changes made to the application or environment, we therefore want to ensure that any manual process of updating versions is replaced with an automated process. In this post, I will go throughContinueContinue reading “Automating SemVer Versioning”

How to get Azure Artifact Feed ID from user readable name

This is a simple post but with some affective content. Sometimes when using Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines you might need to interact with the Azure DevOps Artifacts and their Feeds. However, to do this you need to obtain the Feed ID, which is not obvious where it is and how to get it, especially duringContinueContinue reading “How to get Azure Artifact Feed ID from user readable name”

What you want in a DevOps Engineer

DevOps and DevOps engineers are not a new concept, but there is still a little unknown as to what they are and what they cover. Therefore, it can be hard to gauge what you should look for when recruiting a DevOps Engineer and the skill set that is required. Not all the skills they needContinueContinue reading “What you want in a DevOps Engineer”

Azure DevOps loop a complex object

This is a subject that I have not found much or any documentation on, so I wanted to share what I did. When creating the parameters to pass into a Template it can get very long, plus when two arrays depend on each other it can get very complex, so ironically a complex object makesContinueContinue reading “Azure DevOps loop a complex object”

Automatic Change Checking on Pipeline Stages

Azure DevOps has the ability to add multiple stage approval styles like human intervention, Azure Monitoring and schedules. However, there is not the ability to value if a source has changed before triggering a Stage. This can be done on the Pipeline level, but not the Stage level where it can be helpful to haveContinueContinue reading “Automatic Change Checking on Pipeline Stages”

Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates

As mentioned in my previous post about Azure DevOps Local Pipeline Testing, the available method of testing with the Azure DevOps API doesn’t have the feature to merge the YAML Templates. Therefore, I have set out to try and solve this issue.. You can view the full PowerShell script on GitHub.(https://github.com/PureRandom/AzureDevOpsYamlMerge-ps) Please feel free toContinueContinue reading “Merge Azure DevOps Pipeline Templates”