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 .
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How Can I automatically reject pull requests in Azure devops when a build has failed? I wont see any pull request in azure if build is not succeed.i want to write a command for it in yamel file.
As far as I know it is impossible to have the PR automatically rejected on a failed build but you can configure it so that the PR cannot be merged in until it does pass a build.
This is done by adding a build validation step in the branch policies. Documentation can be found here
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:
If I make a pull request in ADO from one of my branches then any commits I push to my branch automatically trigger the build pipeline:
This is configured in the build validation branch policies on master:
But for draft pull requests I need to trigger builds manually:
The documentation (here) does not mention any distinction between active and draft pull requests. How do I configure my project so that commits to branches in a draft pull requests automatically trigger a build?
According to the docs:
Draft pull requests do not include reviewers or run builds by default
but allow you to manually add reviewers and run builds. To promote the
pull request to a normal pull request, simply click the Publish button
from the pull request detail page.
So, it looks like you experience the expected behavior.
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 set up a pull request release trigger in the following way.
I want to deploy Artifacts from VerifyApiTestEnvironment branch whenever pull request into that branch is successfully completed.
This is how my artifacts look.
This is how my CD trigger looks like.
This is how my pre-deployment conditions look like.
This is how my policy screen looks.
This is how my branch structure looks. I am always getting an error in the build saying source branch missing the changes from master when I complete the pull request targeting the VerifyApiTestEnvironment branch. What could be the reason behind this?
Every time I am committing my changes to a featureBranch and then I open a pull request for it to merge into VerifyApiTestEnvironment branch.
I expect to trigger a release and then a deployment every time I do this, but the release is not getting triggered.
Am I missing something related to configuring PR triggers?
The setting of yours has some problem. As Daniel said, it is used to set as deploy with a PR created. In addition, if you want to deploy just after PR is completed, the source of this release should be Repository instead of build pipeline.
So, first, you need to change your release source as Azure Repository:
And then, enable Continuous deployment trigger. While the PR completed, it means that code change are merged into the target branch of Repository. So, this need to be enabled, or the deploy will not be triggered while the PR is completed.
In addition, you need to set branch filter, or the deploy will be triggered no matter which branch is changed. Here I set just merge into master branch( PR target branch is master) can trigger this CD.
For this option, it just be use for the PR created trigger deploy. Since you just want deploy triggered by the PR completed, so you do not need enable it.
Now, if your master has policy that the code change applied successfully only after PR created and verified, the CD will be executed only after PR completed.
For some configuration of policy, build policy is used to set build trigger, and status policy used to trigger the release.
So, according to your policy setting, it's used to trigger the build first, and then the build will trigger the release. It's not directly trigger the deploy just after the PR completed.