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Cross-Platform Container Builds with Azure Pipelines

February 21, 2019 Feb 21, 2019 02/21/19
Edward Thomson
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

February 20, 2019 Feb 20, 2019 02/20/19
Zhiqing Qiu
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

February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19
Atin Bansal
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

February 5, 2019 Feb 5, 2019 02/5/19
Alex Mullans
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

January 25, 2019 Jan 25, 2019 01/25/19
Edward Thomson
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

January 25, 2019 Jan 25, 2019 01/25/19
Raiyan Alam
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

January 16, 2019 Jan 16, 2019 01/16/19
Shashank Bansal
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)

January 7, 2019 Jan 7, 2019 01/7/19
Máté Barabás
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

November 13, 2018 Nov 13, 2018 11/13/18
David Staheli
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 ...