i want to prevent the User from merging a PR if a specific pipeline failed. But i don't want to trigger the pipeline again but i want to use the latest run because the pipeline is a scheduled systemtest.
The "Build Validation" policy has no option to check the latest run of a pipeline.
Add build policy
Is there a way to achieve this?
I am afraid that there is no such method can use Build Validation to check the latest run instead of triggering new pipeline.
Refer to this doc: Build validation
A build validation policy queues a new build when a new PR is created or changes are pushed to an existing PR that targets the branch.
Triggering new build is the default behavior of the Build validation in Branch Policy.
I suggest you can add an extra pipeline to set the branch policy, in the extra pipeline you can use the Rest API: Latest - Get to check the latest running status of the target pipeline
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I want to have my build pipeline configured such a way that when ever my pipeline fails there is a bug created for the same. I cannot find an option to select this configuration for a particular branch. Can someone help me with this.
I want to create a bug whenever my build pipeline fails in azure devops. And i want to have it configured for a particular branch
There is an option Create a work item on failure on the pipeline Options tab.
If the build pipeline fails, it can automatically create a work item to track getting the problem fixed.
But we could not configurate it for a particular branch for this option, but we could create a new pipeline with trigger filter Branch specification:
In this case, only the particular branch build failed, it will create a bug.
My goal is to block a PR completion until a change has gone through a CI pipeline and been deployed in a test release pipeline successfully. Additionally, I want to control which CI pipeline builds enter the release pipeline, so release entries don't get added with every PR commit.
I currently have the CI pipeline setup and working and I have a release pipeline working with manual additions.
To solve my problem, I tried to modify the Release pipelines Build Artifacts settings to use Pull request triggers for a specific target branch. Then, in the Release pipeline stage's pre-deployment conditions, I've selected a trigger of "After release" with pull request deployment enabled. However, I'm not seeing releases automatically created.
Is what I want possible? Are there other steps to execute this?
How can I block PR completion until a release succeeds in Azure DevOps?
To achieve this, you could add the release pipeline as Status Checks in the Branch Policies:
Detailed steps:
Add the CI pipeline as Build Validation in the Branch Policies for the specific target branch.
Do the same release pipeline settings as you, enable Pull request triggers for the specific target branch and enable pull request deployment.
Add the release pipeline as Status Checks in the Branch Policies for the specific target branch.
Note:
If you could not see the release pipeline in the list when you add
the Status Checks:
Please try to change the Source type of the release from Build Artifacts to Azure devops repos for the specific target branch, and also enable Pull request triggers for the specific target branch. Then, create a pull request to trigger this release pipeline. After that, we refresh the Branch Policies, we will see the release pipeline.
Now, we change the Source type of the release back to Build Artifacts and enable Pull request triggers for the specific target branch and enable pull request deployment.
The reason why you did not see releases automatically created may be that your build pipeline is not triggered by PR (maybe manually).
Mytest result :
If I do not set the release pipeline as Status Checks, just enable Pull request triggers and pull request deployment, it will set as Optional, it will not block PR completion:
I am not able to trigger a pull request release by creation of a pull request.
Please check what I am doing wrong.
First I set a Pull request trigger to Enabled for the required artifact.
Then I enable Pull request deployment for Testing stage
The latest build run is successful for the source pipeline:
But when I create a pull request (either manually or programatically as a final step in the source build pipeline), a new release is not triggered.
Thanks in advance for your help.
From your screenshot, your build is triggered manually, you need to set a branch policy for the master branch to make the build triggered by pull request.
This is because you select build as the artifact source type. If you choose azure repo as source type, you do not need to set this branch policy.
Here is a document you can refer to .
I have a repo which has two branches:
develop (repo's default branch)
master
Code within the develop branch is known to be releasable as an "alpha" version, while code within master is known to be production ready.
Currently, the develop branch's policies requires that a CI build must successfully complete for the PR to merge. That build will create NuGet package artifacts with a prerelease tag (alpha-####).
A release pipeline is responsible for taking these packages and publishing them to an internal NuGet feed.
What I'm trying to achieve is to have the release pipeline triggered automatically when the PR is completed, not whenever the CI build succeeds.
I expected the "pull request trigger" to do just that, but much to my surprise the trigger won't acknowledge the PR's status and have the release pipeline start as soon as the CI build is completed.
This means that if the PR gets rejected for whatever reason, a NuGet may still be deployed to my feed!
What am I doing wrong here? How come the pull request trigger doesn't work any differently than the continuous deployment trigger? What's it's purpose then? :/
The continuous deployment trigger means, if you specify certain types of artifacts in a release pipeline, you can enable continuous deployment. This instructs Azure Pipeline to create new releases automatically when it detects new artifacts are available.
The Pull request trigger means, once a pull request release is configured, anytime a pull request is raised for the protected branch, a release is triggered automatically, deployed to the specified environments.
So these two triggers are different and more detailed information you can refer to here.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/deploy-pull-request-builds?view=azure-devops
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/triggers?view=azure-devops
And if you still want to deploy your Nuget after a PR completed, I recommend you to create a new build pipeline and enable the Continuous integration for it. Then set this build pipeline as the Release pipeline Artifact.
Because when a PR completed, it will create a new commit to the target branch and this new commit will trigger the build pipeline, and the build pipeline will trigger the release pipeline to deploy the Nuget as your expected.
Not sure if anyone's still looking for a solution to this over a year after the fact, but I was so I wrote an Azure Function app to receive pull request close webhooks from DevOps and translate those events into new releases.
You can find it here on my github: https://github.com/GravlLift/OnPullRequest
Feel free to fork it to fit whatever your individual needs are.
I have branch validation in the form of a PR Build, which means I have duplicated my original build and removed some steps (such as pushing to my docker registry).
I would prefer to simply be able to automatically add a tag / some kind of identifier to a PR build and exclude the step on the original build using custom conditions.
Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so how to achieve it? I'd really rather not duplicate each and every build.
If I understand your question correctly, you would like to run a build step based on a custom condition. In this case, the custom condition is whether the build is a PR build or not.
You can check the pre-defined build variables available in Azure Devops here and you can see that there is a Build.Reason variable.
I am listing a few variables here.
Manual: A user manually queued the build.
IndividualCI: Continuous integration (CI) triggered by a Git push or a TFVC check-in.
PullRequest: The build was triggered by a Git branch policy that requires a build.
You can specify the condition in custom condition settings of your build step like this.
More examples available in the docs