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Oct 1, 2024
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Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported by December 3. Pipeline jobs using the image label should be updated to use , o...

CI/CD
Aug 2, 2024
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Announcing Public Preview of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

Suraj Guptha Eliza Tarasila
Suraj,
Eliza

Engineering teams ideally want to spend all their time writing code to create applications and services for their users! In reality, many end up spending a significant portion of their time on other tasks, such as maintaining DevOps infrastructure. In Azure DevOps, Microsoft-hosted agents (aka Azure Pipelines agents) provide a fully managed, low o...

DevOpsCI/CD
Feb 16, 2024
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Azure Pipelines deprecated tasks retirement schedule

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

Azure Pipelines includes around 150 build & release tasks as well as many more task extensions. Various included tasks have multiple (major) versions bringing the total to over included 200 tasks. Some of these tasks have been deprecated for some time, as newer tasks have replaced them. Deprecation means the task is still supported, before it ...

CI/CD
Feb 15, 2024
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JUnit Attachments Support for Publish Test Results

David Paquette
David Paquette

We've recently made some improvements to the Publish Test Results task in Azure Pipelines. This task now supports file attachments when publishing test results from a JUnit report. JUnit Attachments Report Format The JUnit XML report format doesn't officially have support for file attachments but there is a common convention of including attachme...

DevOpsAzure & CloudCommunity
Feb 12, 2024
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Workload identity federation for Azure deployments is now generally available

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

In September, we announced the ability to configure Azure service connections that do not need a secret. Azure service connections that use workload identity federation are easier to manage and more secure. Many customers have adopted this feature and we're excited to announce it is now generally available! Improved security Workload identity f...

Azure & CloudCI/CD
Nov 1, 2023
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Git Partial Clone Now Supported in Azure DevOps

Michael Carlson
Michael Carlson

Git Partial Clone Treeless and blobless Git Partial Clones are now enabled in Azure DevOps for all customers! Partial clones are a reduced type of git clone that users create via specific arguments on the git command line. For large repositories with a lot of history, they offer a dramatic performance improvement compared to a regular clone, with ...

Azure & CloudDevOpsCI/CD
Sep 11, 2023
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Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

Do you want to stop storing secrets and certificates in Azure service connections? Are you tired rotating these secrets whenever they expire? We are now announcing a public preview of workload identity federation for Azure service connections. Workload identity federation uses an industry-standard technology, Open ID Connect (OIDC), to simplify the...

CI/CDAzure & Cloud
Jul 20, 2023
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Improvements to code coverage experience under test automation

Ravi Kumar
Ravi Kumar

If you're using Azure DevOps for your CI/CD pipeline, you may be interested in our recent improvements to code coverage testing. Code coverage tests can help you identify areas of your code that are not tested, or not tested enough, and improve the quality of your automated tests and overall code quality. With our recent updates, you can now view ...

TestCI/CD
Apr 13, 2023
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Service Connection guidance for AKS customers using Kubernetes tasks

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

Kubernetes tasks & Service Connections Azure DevOps supports Kubernetes deployments with a number of included tasks: These tasks can be configured to target a Kubernetes cluster in a number of ways, using the property: Kubernetes Service Connection limitations when accessing AKS You can create a Kubernetes Service Connection wi...

CI/CD
Mar 7, 2023
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Integrate Azure Load Testing into Azure DevOps

April Yoho
April Yoho

Azure Load Testing became generally available in February 2023. It shipped with a lot of new features that were requested by you, the community. You can get started quickly from within the Azure portal, or upload your own custom JMeter script. Azure Load Testing allows you to find bottlenecks within your application stack, load testing your applica...

Azure & CloudDevOpsCI/CD