How can we maintain build and deployment history if we are planning to migrate the yml pipelines from one project to another in Azure DevOps?
How can we maintain build and deployment history if we are planning to migrate the yml pipelines from one project to another in Azure DevOps?
I am afraid there is no such way to do this at this moment.
Currently, we can only export and import pipeline for the classic editor. For the yml pipelines, we could only copy the yml file to another repo. But neither classic editor nor yml can transplant history records.
You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21 ), which is our main forum for product suggestions. Thank you for helping us build a better Azure DevOps.
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Have you ever tried to use Jira as development board and Azure DevOps as repository + CI/CD Pipelines?
I was wondering if it is possible to link to Jira tasks the results of Azure pipelines deployments and builds, i found this plugin but reviews say is not working properly recently.
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Using the mentioned plugins seems the right way although they are not working properly at the moment. I will try to contact the support as suggested.
According to your description, you can try to use the plugin for Azure DevOps.
Then you can use the flow: Jira -> GitHub -> Azure Pipelines CI -> Azure Pipelines CD.
For more information, you could refer to the Azure Pipelines integration with Jira Software.
I have Azure YAML pipelines that have been created long back and I am now looking into migrating my existing devops solutions form Azure to Github Actions.
How do I approach migrating / translating existing pipelines from Azure DevOps to Github Actions?
Manually translating each ADO Pipeline is not something that would be consider a feasible solution for the number of pipelines I have.
Reference Links:
Azure DevOps Pipelines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/yaml-schema/?view=azure-pipelines
Github Actions: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions
Simply put: I need to convert my existing ADO pipelines to Github Actions
I am thinking of building a tool to serve this purpose of converting Azure DevOps pipelines to Github Actions but need ideas on how to approach this problem.
From Leo Liu's answer, May 2022:
I am afraid there is no such out of box extension or tool to batch Convert Azure Pipelines YAML to Github Actions YAML at this moment.
Update:
Introducing GitHub Actions Importer (Nov. 2022)
We’ve launched a public preview of GitHub Actions Importer, which helps you forecast, plan, and automate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions.
Doing individual migrations is relatively easy in isolation.
However, for those that have a large and established CI/CD footprint, having tooling available to assist with migrations is key to their ability to adopt Actions at scale.
In the time that we’ve been developing and using GitHub Actions Importer in its private preview form, we’ve encountered numerous customers that have thousands of pipelines—even in excess of 15K—in their legacy environments that need to be migrated.
GitHub Actions Importer is designed to help when manual migration is not feasible, such as when users have a large number of teams that depend on hundreds or thousands of workflows.
To learn more, see Automating migrations with GitHub Actions Importer and the announcement post on the GitHub blog.
Sign up here to request access to the public preview.
So check it out: it does list Azure DevOps in its Supported CI platforms.
How to Batch Convert Azure Pipelines YAML to Github Actions YAML?
I am afraid there is no such out of box extension or tool to batch Convert Azure Pipelines YAML to Github Actions YAML at this moment.
There is a tool to make migrations between Azure Pipelines YAML and GitHub Actions YAML easier for one YAML file at a time:
Convert Azure Pipelines YAML to GitHub Actions YAML
But the tool for batch convert doesn't seem to exist yet.
How do I customize the "Pipeline" tab in Azure Devps (Image 1) so that it is renamed to "Builds" (Image 2)?
Rename “Pipelines” to “Builds” in ADO
Sorry for any inconvenience.
This behavior is by designed and is not an issue. There is no way to fix it at present.
Azure devops team working on an updated user experience to manage our pipelines. These updates make the pipelines experience modern and consistent with the direction of Azure DevOps.
Moreover, these updates bring together classic build pipelines and multi-stage YAML pipelines into a single experience. It is mobile-friendly and brings various improvements to how you manage your pipelines.
You could check the document Azure DevOps Pipelines – Multi-Stage Pipelines and YAML for Continuous Delivery for some more details.
Since Multi-Stage Pipelines and YAML for Continuous Delivery introduced, Builds are no longer just a single build as before, but also include the CD part. At this time, Builds are no longer suitable as tabs, so they are changed to Pipelines.
This is a modification of product update progress.
I create a multi-stage pipeline in YML file including build stage and deployment to dev, test and production.
I ant to have a dashboard to show me the status of deployment and which release version was deployed to each stages?
I check the "Deployment Status" widget, but it only work with release option.
So anybody has experience to support me?
I am afraid that there are no out-of-the-box widgets to display the stages of the YAML pipeline and the status of each stage on the azure devops dashboard. Currently, the Release Pipeline Overview widget accomplishes this but it cannot be linked to a YAML pipeline.
Until now, in our official feature suggestion for Azure Devops forum, there has been a such suggestion exist in it: ADO Dashboard Widget-Release Pipeline Overview should support YAML Pipelines. You can add your vote directly at the above linked feedback. Voting helps increase the priority of the suggestion by consolidating customer impact under one feedback. The product team would provide the updates if they view it. Thank you for helping us build a better Azure DevOps!
Here is a ticket with similar issue.
How to migrate on premises Jenkins jobs to Azure DevOps? Is any plugins available?
I know manually how we can create Azure DevOps pipeline.
There is some available guidance from Microsoft on migrating from Jenkins to YAML builds in Azure Pipelines, but there are no plug-ins or tools that will automate this for you at the moment.
There is, however, a way to trigger Jenkins builds from Azure Pipelines using the Jenkins Integration extension. This may be a good option as you transition.
No, there are no plugins available for that.