Is it possible for a specific user to bypass the review policies of a pull request?
For my specific scenario I am running NuKeeper on a pipeline and my Build Service user is successfully creating a pull request, but I'd like any PRs raised by this user to automatically bypass the required reviewers (but still go through the checks e.g. my build and test stage) - Is this possible?
The only other workaround I could think of would be to have a scheduled "master" pipeline which iterates over my repos and just merges all open pull requests from that particular user.
Is it possible for a specific user to bypass the review policies of a pull request?
You could add a account with higher permission, set Bypass policies when completing pull requests as Allow:
When we use this account to create a PR, this account can complete the PR directly without the approval of the reviewer.
Besides, there are a couple of ways to set up bypassing depending on how broadly you want to give someone rights to bypass. We are going to start with the narrower option which is allowing bypass for an individual branch or we could set it at the repo level.
You could check the document Azure DevOps Repos: Bypass Branch Policies for some more details.
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I want to bypass branch policy such that when a particular allowed user creates a PR in azure devops then it bypass the branch policy and autocompletes.
I need bash task so.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I want to bypass branch policy such that when a particular allowed user creates a PR in azure devops then it bypass the branch policy and autocompletes.
You could set the Bypass branch policies:
Bypass permissions let you push changes to a branch directly, or
complete pull requests that don't satisfy branch policies. You can
grant bypass permissions to a user or group. You can scope bypass
permissions to an entire project, a repo, or a single branch.
You could go to the Project settings under Repos select Repositories and then fine the Branches node under the project you want to set the policy for：
Note: It will bypass all the branch policies, not only the Bypass build validation policy on branch.
You could check the document Azure DevOps Repos: Bypass Branch Policies for some more details.
I have been reading the Azure Devops docs and I am completely confused by them. All I want to is something very simple (simple with Github Actions in Github anyway) where
A developer creates a PR.
As the PR is created Azure runs all the associated Cypress tests
If any fail then the notes at the top of the PR indicate this. For example just next to the bit where it says 'there are merge conflicts'
We had this working in Github, but I can't figure it out here.
Thanks
There is no extension like "Cypress GitHub app" in azure devops, so it is impossible to achieve exactly the same function as in github pull request.
As a workaround , you can try to add status policy.
Using status alone, details from an external service can be provided
to users within the PR experience. Sometimes, sharing information
about a PR is all that is necessary, but in other cases PRs should be
blocked from merging until requirements are met. Like the in-box
policies, the Status policy provides a way for external services to
block PR completion until requirements are met. If the policy is
required, it must pass in order to complete the pull request. If the
policy is optional, it is informational only, and a status of
succeeded is not required in order to complete the pull request.
External services can use the PR Status API to post detailed status to your PRs. The branch policy for external services brings the ability for those 3rd party services to participate in the PR workflow and establish policy requirements. This article guides you through the process of configuring a branch policy for a service that is posting PR status.
In addition, here is a ticket about how to create required pull request status check, you can refer to it.
I want to protect my execution server from actions workflows changes. Therefore i created the actions in dedicated repo and granted readonly permission for the collaborators.
The problem is that they now can not execute the workflow manually...
How can i solve that problem? I want that only DevOps will be able to change and create workflows but every developer will be allowed to run it.
I have a pipeline with the following:
resources:
repositories:
- repository: repo
type: git
name: TEST-staging
steps:
- checkout: repo
When the pipeline runs I get this warning:
This pipeline needs permission to access a resource before this run can continue
Which prompts me to grant access:
Granting permission here will permit the use of Repository 'TEST-staging' for all waiting and future runs of this pipeline.
I would like to be able to audit and modify which pipelines have access to which repos. Where are those permissions listed?
EDIT: User is prompted to permit access when the pipeline names the repo e.g. - checkout: repo however, user is NOT prompted to permit access when using -checkout: self even though it's the same repo.
EDIT: The organization settings for Limit job authorization scope to current project for non-release pipelines and Limit job authorization scope to referenced Azure DevOps repositories are currently and have always been disabled.
EDIT: This FAQ question is similar to my question: Why am I am prompted to authorize resources the first time I try to check out a different repository?. That FAQ leads to this documentation: Troubleshooting authorization for a YAML pipeline. That documentation contains:
When you create a pipeline for the first time, all the resources that
are referenced in the YAML file are automatically authorized for use
by the pipeline, provided that you are a member of the User role
for that resource. So, resources that are referenced in the YAML file
at pipeline creation time are automatically authorized. When you
make changes to the YAML file and add additional resources ... then
the build fails with a resource authorization error ... In this case,
you will see an option to authorize the resources on the failed build.
If you are a member of the User role for the resource, you can select
this option. Once the resources are authorized, you can start a new
build.
EDIT: This seems to be the work item for the change that is causing us to be prompted to permit access.
So, I am being lead to these conclusions:
#Leo had the correct answer to the question "Where are those permissions listed?" except when a YAML resource is added to an existing pipeline
When YAML resources are modified or edited, the user is prompted to authorize that access even when that access is already authorized via the user's role
I have re-titled this post in the hopes that it more clearly asks the question, because as of now there does not seem to be any place in which ad-hoc authorizations are listed
I would like to be able to audit and modify which pipelines have access to which repos. Where are those permissions listed?
According to the document Pipeline permissions and security roles, we could to know:
For permissions, you grant or restrict permissions by setting the
permission state to Allow or Deny, either for a security group or an
individual user. For a role, you add a user or group to the role.
Therefore, the permission of the pipeline is associated with the user executing the pipeline.
To be able to audit and modify which pipelines have access to which repos, we could use a higher authority account to give the current user permission to access the TEST-staging repo:
Organization Settings->Users->select the current user->Three dots->Manager User:
If the current user has permission to directly access the repo, then when this user executes the pipeline, the pipeline will have the permission to access the resource repo.
Right now i see that only pull request URL is supplied through the notification. Is it possible to modify either the azure devops connector or modify azure repos subscription in microsoft teams to include approval as well
First off, with the default connector, I didn't see that possibility. We have a similar use case and we use a LogicApp or Power Automate to do what you want with REST API calls.
Link to the documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/git/pull%20requests/get%20pull%20request?view=azure-devops-rest-5.1
However, why have pull request approval policies if someone won't even look into the changes and approve them?
As others have mentioned, 'rubber stamping' Pull Requests goes against their intent. However, if you are looking for a command approach to Pull Requests, one does exist in the form of the Azure CLI.
The following command would approve a Pull Request:
az repos pr set-vote --id {id} --vote approve
Take a look at the docs to learn more:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ext/azure-devops/repos/pr?view=azure-cli-latest#ext-azure-devops-az-repos-pr-set-vote
Installation for Azure CLI can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-windows?view=azure-cli-latest&tabs=azure-cli
Is it possible to approve pull requests from azure repos in micorsoft teams?
Agree with Daniel. It is unreasonable to approve PR directly in teams without reviewing the PR content.
But it is a good choice to display the alert of PR in teams, so that we can directly click alert to direct to PR.
To display the PR in the teams, you could check below document how to get the Pull Request Alerts in Microsoft Teams:
VSTS Pull Request Alerts in Microsoft Teams
Hope this helps.