Trigger Azure DevOps Pipeline

Trigger Azure DevOps Pipeline is an extension for triggering a Azure DevOps Build or Release Pipeline.

Depending on your choice in the task, it will trigger a build or a release pipeline.

To use the extension, an Azure DevOps API endpoint needs to be created. The token used in the endpoint should be Personal Access Token. How you can create a personal access token can be found here:

• Use personal access tokens to authenticate

Make sure the personal access token has the following rights:

• Triggering a Release: Release – Read, write & execute – Build Read & Execute
• Triggering a Build: Read & Execute

For the service connection to work as it should, you need to configure the following parameters:

• Organization Url: The URL of the organization. (https://dev.azure.com/[organization])
• Release API Url: The URL of the Azure DevOps Release API (https://vsrm.dev.azure.com/[organization])
• Personal Access Token: The personal access token.

![Azure DevOps API Service Connection][serviceconnection]

The extension itself has the following parameters

• Azure DevOps service connection: The service connection that you have configured.
• Project: The project where the pipeline resides.
• Pipeline type: The type of pipeline (build / release).
• Release Definition: The definition to trigger.
• Release description: Description for the release. It can also be empty.
• Build Number: If you want to use a specific build number. It will set the build number for the primary artifact. When left empty it will take the latest build.
• Build Definition: The build definition to trigger.
• Branch: The name of the branch to trigger. When left empty, it will use the default configured branch.
• API version: The version of the API to use.
• Variable: JSON string representing the variables to set

Documentation

For the documentation, check the wiki.

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