I want to create Azure DevOps pipelines, but instead of writing new yaml files, use prepared ones that are in a github repository.
I have connected GitHub to my Azure DevOps account, but I Can't see an option to use yaml files in that repository.
I only have an option to create a new pipeline yaml, and then set it in the repo folder structure.
If I try and set it on the location of the yaml file I want to use, which is already in the repo, I get - of course, an error stating there's a file there.
My work around is to set a new yaml file with a different name, copy the content from the existing file and then delete that one and rename the new file to the name of the file I copied from.
Surely there must be a better, easier, more logical and short way.
I would appreciate any help.
Under project settings you should link your Github account.
Then you can go and create a new pipeline and select the Github location
after this step, your available github repositories will appear and you can select your existing .YML file.
Existing pipeline:
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I use github for hosting my projects and have multiple projects in github. And I use Azure devops for CICD alone. I have a single project in Azure devops, where I create individual pipeline corresponding to each project in my github repo. All these github projects would need to use the same azure-pipeline.yml for build. So instead of keeping the same yml file in each project, is there a way I can keep this yml centrally. So that in future, if at all a change is required, I need not do it for all individual projects, instead, update the main yml template.
A single yml file where I have all the code is even possible for my usecase? Any help is much appreciated
Have you considered using templates? Essentially you have would end up with a single template containing the main build steps that is reusable and individual yaml for each pipeline that can pass parameters to the template for any differences you have between them (such as different triggers or variable values). This way you can update all pipelines by making changes to the template
Template documentation
According to your description, you may setup a repo contains all the YAML files for pipelines. Kindly also be advised that we can also keep the templates in other repositories, if we have defined the repository resources in the core YAML pipeline. Kindly refer to the sample Core and template YAML files below.
#Core YAML in Azure Repos
trigger: none
pool:
vmImage: ubuntu-latest
resources:
repositories:
- repository: GitHub_REPO_1
type: github
name: GitHubAccountName/GitHubRepo1
endpoint: GitHubServiceConnectionName
- repository: GitHub_REPO_2
type: github
name: GitHubAccountName/GitHubRepo2
endpoint: GitHubServiceConnectionName
steps:
- checkout: none
# - checkout: GitHub_REPO_1
- template: GHREPO1.yml#GitHub_REPO_1
# - checkout: GitHub_REPO_2
- template: GHREPO2.yml#GitHub_REPO_2
#Template YAML from GitHub Repo
steps:
- script: echo "This YAML template is from GitHubRepo1"
displayName: 'Template From GitHubRepo1'
By the way, we could also checkout the code from one or multiple repository resource(s) and trigger the pipeline by the commits from the repository resources. Please refer to the following documents for more information.
Define YAML resources for Azure Pipelines - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Docs
Check out multiple repositories in your pipeline - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Docs
I'm new to Azure DevOps, and I was wondering if there was a way to automatically detected a .yml build file and create a pipeline without having to interact with the site.
I have tried creating a file called azure-pipelines.yml in the root of the repo, with no luck.
Is there anyway to automatically create pipelines? Like how Jenkins detects a Jenkinsfile?
No this is nott possible out of the box, because YAML file is not always pipeline definition. You my try to figure out if it is trully is, however you need to listen for repo changes and in fact you can do this via another pipeline ;) for instance as this:
check if commit has a new yaml file added
verify if the file is pipeline
create a pipeline using azure cli (for instance)
However, this would be quite a lot of work and then you need to create such pipeline in every repo you want to have this detection enabled.
We have an open source project in GitHub. And we use Azure DevOps pipelines for our CI.
We publish our artefacts to S3 and Maven after successful tests, so all the credentials are stored as secret variables.
It's nice that export and echo $top_secret are conveniently obfuscated with ***, but unfortunately literally any user on GitHub can create a pull request against our repo, and as part of the changes, they can edit our azure-pipelines.yml and call a curl (or similar) to read the credentials from environmental variables and send them to their own server.
In other CI providers (Travis CI) secret variables are not accessible from PR branches.
How can I prevent PRs from touching my CI configuration file and do anything with it?
How can I prevent PRs from touching my CI configuration file and do anything with it?
You CI configuration file is save in the GitHub open source and you want to restrict users from changing this file, right? Since we cannot set file permission in the GitHub. we cannot prevent PRs from touching your CI configuration file.
As a workaround, we could create classic editor pipeline in the Azure DevOps and set the CI Trigger, such as below. If users do not have permission to change the build definition, they cannot change your CI build definition.
Update1
Summary: We have Below mentioned release pipelines
1. Release1 -This pipeline will create resources like Application insights, App service plan, Key vault. (ARM files -azuredeploy.json and azuredeployparameters.json)
2. Release2 Pipeline: This pipeline will create resources like App service/Function App using Release1 components like Application insights, App service plan, Key vault. (ARM files -azuredeploy.json and azuredeployparameters.json)
We have multiple micro services In Release2 pipelines,
Environments like Dev, QA, Test .
Each environment has separate resource group.
azuredeployparameters.json all values are same for all services except webapp name.
Issue:If we want change or update any value in all azuredeployparameters.json files in all Release2 pipeline services, We are updating manually.
Kindly suggest the solution on below:
Can we link all our release2 azuredeployparameters.json files to one centralized azuredeployparameters.json file.
If we modify centralized azuredeployparameters.json file, it should update all azuredeployparameters.json files in all release 2 services.
You can put your azuredeployparameters.json in your central/main repo. And if you use release pipelines for instance, you should create build for your central repo and publish azuredeployparameters.json as artifact. You can later use this artifacts in any release pipeline you want. So you can get it Release1 and Release2.
If you use build pipelines also to deploy, you can use multiple repos and get source code (in release 1) from your central repo and repo dedicated to this release. In the same way you have this file available.
If you want to customize file a bit in Relese pipeline you can tokenize you azuredeployparameters.json file and replace those tokens in release. Here you have extension for this.
I've been trying to deploy my web app on Bitbucket to Azure Storage using Bitbucket Pipelines. I'm having issues with the SOURCE option. I need to copy the entire source code in the current repository, but SOURCE option seems to require a directory name.
My pipeline script is something like this:
- pipe: microsoft/azure-storage-deploy:2.0.0
variables:
SOURCE: './*'
DESTINATION: 'https://mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer'
How can I deploy everything in current repository?
The problem is fixed now.
There is a constant $BITBUCKET_CLONE_DIR which holds current repository.
You can find more pre-defined constants here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/variables-in-pipelines-794502608.html