is there any way, I can make below tasks mandatory so that a user cannot disable it under Build Pipeline(CI) in Azure DevOps
If you are the owner of the organization, you can manage it through the settings.
Navigate to Your Project -> Pipeline -> Manage Security and probably you need to restrict the user from editing the pipeline
There are various policies available which you can play around.
You can develop a Pipeline decorator extension and then install it to your organization. Pipeline decorators let you add steps to the beginning and end of every pipeline job.
To view more details, you can see "Use a decorator to inject steps into a pipeline".
Normally, only the Organization Owner or Project Collection Administrators can add or delete the extensions on the organization. So, other users are not able to remove the decorators from the pipelines.
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We have an Azure Function and an Azure DevOps Pipeline, the pipeline builds and published the code of the function's repo automatically. We want to escape discrepancies caused by, potentially, people manually publishing a version of the code, from within their Visual Studio, that is not in source control.
How can we ensure that?
Is there a way to disable manual publishing and only allow the Azure DevOps Pipeline to publish code to the function?
I am referring to a person using the "Publish" option in Visual Studio. Is there a way to forbid the Azure function from accepting such a publish?
To stop manual changes to the build, yaml files and pipeline would be to restric access to the build section of the pipeline for all the users.
This way no one will be able to change the pipeline but the admin user will still have access to the pipeline.
To set the permission we have to go to manage security which is under the pipeline tag.
Then we can select the permission for the users.
Here each tag represents a permission. Since we want to stop manual deployment we would set Edit build pipeline and Edit quality pipeline to deny.
These permissions can be set for individuals as well as security group.
Reference:
permissions in devops.
I am attempting to perform Resource Management inside an Azure YAML Pipeline.
The YAML file is checked into source code and can be edited by developers.
Code Reviews will not occur until the deployment is moving from UAT into Production.
I would like to make sure that a deployment to QA cannot perform Resource Management for the resource group associated with the Production Environment. ie: prod databases
Can I limit a Service Connection to only be available in certain release stages?
Is there another way to limit Resource Management to specific stages of a pipeline?
Azure Devops Pipeline Stages: Independent Security
I am afraid there is no such way to limit a Service Connection to only be available in certain release stages at this moment.
According to the document we could to know Service connections:
The service connection security is divided into three categories in the service connections new UI:
User permissions
Pipeline permissions
Project permissions
When your pipeline uses the classic UI mode, you could use User permissions to control who can create, view, use and manage the service connection with user permissions.
If your pipeline is YAML mode, you could use the Pipeline permissions, Pipeline permissions control which YAML pipelines are authorized to use this service connection.
So, there is no such way to limit Resource Management to specific stages of a pipeline.
For this request, you could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21 ), which is our main forum for product suggestions. Thank you for helping us build a better Azure DevOps.
I'm using Azure DevOps pipelines and for 'builds' I can define 'Hosted Ubuntu' agent (in my pipelines.yml file). But for 'releases' there's no way to edit yaml just the UI. The agent pool drop down list shows 'Default (no agents)'. I assume my problem is probably related to project permissions but haven't figured out what controls the visibility. On another account I see all the hosted agent options available.
For the possible security permissions issue
Check that you are part of the group(s) assigned as User to the security of the app pool in question.
If this security operates like other Allow, Deny, NotSet permissions, then your occupation in a group that has less than User permission will revoke that permission, but I haven't seen any documentation about this.
For the use of YAML in release pipelines
Yaml usage in the formal release pipeline hub is not supported. If you want to use yaml for your CD release, you're going to need to enable the new multi-stage pipelines experience.
This allows you to create stages in your .yml file that relate to deployment functions in addition to the classic build functions.
I believe this removes your release tracking from the release hub and integrates it directly into the build hub.
This is still a new concept for Azure DevOps, as is the documentation and writing about it. I found this article to be helpful.
Because this new feature seems to be centered around AKS (or other Kubernetes services) and Docker, I'm not sure if this will help you by allowing you to specify the host in yaml, but you mentioned "release" and "yaml" in the same sentence, so I thought I would address that.
Am working on Secure DevOps Kit for Azure(AzSK) using VSTS CI&CD. For working AzSK in VSTS there were two tasks named "AzSK ARM Templete Checker" and "Secure DevOps Kit(AzSK) CICD Extensions for Azure" which are available from Market place. But, here am unable to access "Secure DevOps Kit(AzSK) CICD Extensions for Azure" task after adding both to my organisation. Is there any extension/install additional tasks to add them for accessing it?
Please suggest me to "How to add it to my CI-Build Definition"
Based on the screenshot, you have installed the extension.
Secure DevOps Kit(AzSK) CICD Extensions for Azure is just the name of the extension. And the real task is AzSK ARM Template Checker.
So, you just need to add the AzSK ARM Template Checker task under test hub.
UPDATE:
Well, please note that another AzSK_SVT task (AzSK Security Verification Tests) is available in 'Release' pipeline tasks only.
So to use it you need to create a release pipeline,... then add the AzSK_SVT task from Test category. Please see Security Verification Tests (SVTs) for details.
First of all I am sorry to ask you a question not relative to your question.
(as it seems that your question is already anwered :) )
I am using the same task in my relaese pipeline and I am trying to add custom checks because the default checks this task is doing is not good enough for me.
This tutorial is really helpfull for trying to set things up, only I seem to just get to add custom baselinecontrols for a local module and not getting it to add it in the azure devops pipeline (more info about my question .
As you are also working on the same task I was hoping that you maybe could me help me figure it out.
I am using VSTS and a private build agent and I want to make sure that I am not opening my organization to attack. The build and deployment pipeline allow Powershell scripts to execute on premise. To protect against hackers I have done the following
Limited the access of the service account that runs the VSTS Build agent
Limited who can invoke a Build or deployment
Avoided executing scripts as part of the build that are in git
We have linked our internal Active directory to VSTS, which means we have a single sign on from within our organization.
My question is what else can I do to secure my Build and release pipelines? Are there tools or scripts that can be used to monitor the build scripts and there use?
You can set permissions with two aspects to make your build/release and the private agent secure:
Set permissions for build/release definitions
Click … button for build/release definitions -> Security -> set detail permissions for groups or users -> Save changes.
Set permissions for agent
You can also set different roles for groups and users for Agent queues and Agent pools.
More details, you can refer the document Set build and release permissions.