Backup Data Extension

This extension contains a variety of pipeline tasks that help you extract data from Azure Repos (or other source control services) during a pipeline execution.

Tasks currently available

• Pull Git Repo
  • pulls any git repo during build into a folder or into the working directory
• Commit to Git
  • pushes a sub folder or everything in the working directory into a specified git repo
• Export Release Definitions
  • exports all (or a subset of all) release definitions from a specified Azure DevOps organisation
  • definitions can be downloaded into a sub folder or the current working directory

All tasks are pipeline tasks

All tasks work on Windows-based agents only

Use cases

• Use the git pull task to get everything in a Git repo, then use Git push to create a copy of this repo in a different location.

• Download one or more release definitons whenever a pipeline is executed

• These can then be pushed to a differen Azure DevOps org or an Azure DevOps server deployment

Code

Available on GitHub

Parameters and Settings

Pull Git Repo

• Source Repo URI
• Username
  • if required
• Password
  • if required (also supports PAT)
• Source Branch
• Drop dir

Commit to Git

• Destination Repo URI
• Username
  • if required
• Password
  • if required (also supports PAT)
• Destination Branch
• Git user name and e-mail
• Commit Message
• Target path

Export Release Definitions

• API endpoint URI
• Username
  • if targeting TFS 2015
• Password or PAT
  • if targeting TFS 2017 or newer and/or Azure DevOps
• Filter
  • simple "Contains" filter to narrow the amount of definitions downloaded
• Drop dir