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Cross-Platform Container Builds with Azure Pipelines

Edward ThomsonFebruary 21, 2019Feb 21, 201902/21/19

This is a follow-up to Matt Cooper's earlier blog post, "Using containerized services in your pipeline". If you haven't yet, I encourage you to read that post to understand the new `container` syntax in the pipeline definition. As a program manager for Azure DevOps, I spend a lot of time speaking with customers about their DevOps ...

Create a CI/CD pipeline for your Azure IoT Edge solution with Azure Pipelines

Zhiqing QiuFebruary 20, 2019Feb 20, 201902/20/19

Modern software moves quickly and demands more from developers than ever. New CI/CD tools can help developers deliver value faster and more transparently, but the need for customized scripts that address different kinds of edge solutions still presents a challenge for some CI/CD pipelines. Now, with the Azure IoT Edge task in Azure Pipelines, ...

Announcing launch of Azure Pipelines app for Slack

Atin BansalFebruary 12, 2019Feb 12, 201902/12/19

I am excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipelines app for Slack. If you use Slack, you can use the Azure Pipelines app for Slack to easily monitor the events for your pipelines. Set up and manage subscriptions for completed builds, releases, pending approvals and more from the app and get notifications for these events in your Slack channels.

Adding caching to Azure Pipelines

Alex MullansFebruary 5, 2019Feb 5, 201902/5/19

For a long while, Azure Pipelines users have been asking to improve performance on the hosted build agents by adding caching for common scenarios like package restore. The issue came up in a recent popular Hacker News item, so we wanted to share an update.

Top 5 Open Source Features in Azure Pipelines

Edward ThomsonJanuary 25, 2019Jan 25, 201901/25/19

When I became a Program Manager, I gave up writing software for a living. So I did what many programmers do when faced with such a dilemma: I started working on open source software in my spare time. One of the projects that I work on is called libgit2.

Automating Releases in GitHub through Azure Pipelines

Raiyan AlamJanuary 25, 2019Jan 25, 201901/25/19

Do you own a GitHub repository? Do you create releases on GitHub to distribute software packages? Do you manually compile a list of changes to be included in release notes? If yes, you will be excited to know that you can now automate creation and modification of GitHub Releases directly from Azure Pipelines. This can be done through the GitHub Release task that is now rolled out to all users.

Include ServiceNow Change Management in Azure Pipelines

Shashank BansalJanuary 16, 2019Jan 16, 201901/16/19

In DevOps ecosystem, choice of systems and collaboration between cross-functional teams is critical. Incidence response and change management are key DevOps activities. ServiceNow is a market leader for IT service management, and we are delighted that Azure Pipelines and ServiceNow have partnered together for an integration of Azure Pipelines with ServiceNow Change Management.

Azure DevOps Agents on Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Máté BarabásJanuary 7, 2019Jan 7, 201901/7/19

This article provides a solution for running Azure DevOps agents (Build/Release agents) on Windows Server Core based containers, hosted on Azure Container Instances (ACI). A solution like this might be useful, when the default Microsoft-hosted agents don't fit your requirements, and you don't prefer using "traditional" IaaS VMs for running your self-hosted agents.

Xcode 8.0-8.3.2 deprecation on Azure Pipelines hosted agents

David StaheliNovember 13, 2018Nov 13, 201811/13/18

This September, Azure Pipelines delivered Microsoft-hosted build support for Xcode 10 on the day it was released. Now that our community builds fewer than 1 percent of apps with older versions of Xcode 8, we will focus on supporting Xcode 8.3.3 and higher. Effective November 28, 2018, we are ending support for older versions of ...

Test Analytics in Azure Pipelines is now at your fingertips

Divya VaishnaviOctober 25, 2018Oct 25, 201810/25/18

Keeping the pipeline healthy and making it effective is KEY to your DevOps ongoing journey. Some time back we introduced Analytics in Azure Pipeline with Top failing tests report to help you do just that.

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