Azure DevOps Blog

DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

CI/CD - Azure DevOps Blog

End of support for Azure Pipelines agents running on CentOS 6, Debian 4.9, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16, macOS 10.14, and older versions

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23
Bohdan Janousek
In the blog post Upgrade of .NET agent for Azure Pipelines, we explained our plan to update the agent implementation from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6 in order to support newer operating systems. If you run your agents on any operating system supported by .NET 6, then this will be seamless to you. However, if you run the agent on one of the ...

Learn Azure DevOps from Zero to Hero

January 27, 2023 Jan 27, 2023 01/27/23
April Edwards
Azure DevOps is FULL of so many features! Myself and Nana from Techworld with Nana teamed up to bring you an Azure DevOps Zero to Hero video! Many of you reading this blog may already be very experienced with Azure DevOps, please share this video to your colleagues and teams that are just getting started. The community (i.e. yourselves!) ...

Disable creation of classic pipelines

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
Silviu
YAML pipelines offer the best security for your Azure Pipelines. In contrast to classic build and release pipelines, YAML pipelines: This is why many of you who are security-conscious choose to only use YAML pipelines. Alas, as long as your engineers can choose to use classic pipelines, you will have to continue worrying about their ...

Node runner update guidance for Azure Pipelines task authors

January 6, 2023 Jan 6, 2023 01/6/23
Eric van Wijk
Introduction This blog post contains important guidance for Azure Pipelines task authors. Task authors are developers that create custom pipeline tasks that are published on the Marketplace and/or used internally in their organization. Background Azure Pipeline tasks are executed using Task runners, which in turn are bundled with and ...

Upgrade of .NET agent for Azure Pipelines

November 23, 2022 Nov 23, 2022 11/23/22
Bohdan Janousek
We are upgrading the .NET used by Azure Pipelines agent from current .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6. This is to support new Apple silicon hardware as well as newer operating systems such as Ubuntu 22.04, or Windows on ARM64. Another reason for the .NET upgrade is the fact the .NET Core 3.1 version is already in maintenance phase and the support ends ...

DevOps Dojo – OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)

June 8, 2022 Jun 8, 2022 06/8/22
DevOps Dojo
In the Dojo White Belt Master Class, the first session is OKR fundamentals. In this session, we answer these top 20 questions related to OKRs, then we ask participants to set their team OKRs for the rest of the class. Every day, each team checks their progress towards their committed OKRs and aspirational OKRs. On the ...