Great news! Rob Ros and I posted about on how to solve the problem of having variables across stages: Robs blog post https://rajbos.github.io/blog/2020/04/17/Azure-DevOps-update-release-variable-across-stages And mine Robs approach is for classic pipelines and mine was for YAML pipelines which was inspired by a PR from . But it was not [...]
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Update 5.5.2020: There is now a native integration. Check my new blog post for an update. The new multi staging pipelines with YAML give you a lot of more flexibility. Variables can be used and shared between nearly every step (e.g. stages and jobs) but they can’t be shared out of the between stages. But hey, there is always a [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: An update to Azure DevOps includes improvements to pull-request actionability, pipeline security and compliance, and npm API performances to increase productivity and reduce latency. Go to the sprint.
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: Multi-organization billing for Azure DevOps is now available. Go to the sprint.
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Since multi-staging-pipelines with YAML have been introduced a big step has been done. They are declarative and configurable pipelines that can be versioned in a repository. One problem still comes: Change YAML -> commit -> run -> fail -> Change YAML -> commit -> run -> fail… Some people getting nerve wrecked [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: With this update, we’ve added a preview-but-don’t-run mode for YAML pipelines so you can try a YAML pipeline without running it or committing it to a repo. This will let you see a fully parsed YAML document without running the [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: An update to Azure DevOps includes improved Azure Pipelines security with read-only variables and support for output variables in deployment jobs. Go to the sprint.
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This is a quick one. To notify all Windows VM owners in Azure we wanted to get all VMs for each subscription with their respective owners and contributors. Of course, I started with a normal Az PowerShell module and it’s cmdlets. But then I remembered the resource graph and wondered if I can get all VMs with subscription id, os [...]
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: In the Sprint 163 update of Azure DevOps, release and pipelines events have been added to the audit logs. In addition, service connections can now be used to reference repositories in another organization in a YAML pipeline. Go to the sprint.
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A new Azure DevOps sprint was just released. The sprint contains the following new features: GitHub Actions for Azure Pipelines is now available in the sprint 161 update of Azure DevOps. Use GitHub Actions to trigger an Azure Pipelines run directly from your GitHub Actions workflow. Go to the sprint.
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