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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

In this blog-tutorial you will: Note Using GitHub Codespaces can incur costs. At the time of writing this tutorial, GitHub free accounts get 120 core-hours of Codespaces compute and 15GB of Codespaces storage for free. Please do consult the GitHub Codespaces pricing page for the most up to date information. This application will be ...

This blog content is compiled by @Ahetejaz from Azure DevOps CSS support team. Recently, he helped a customer in resolving an issue 'Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'templatePath') in Azure DevOps Services when user tried to edit the YAML pipeline. The reason for the issue was deletion of service connection for external reposit...

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 following op...

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!) asked for...

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 security...