2023-07

Display Custom Build Number in Azure DevOps Environments

Hello! I’ve been trying to wrap my head around how to get the Build Number to display in the environments status information in Azure DevOps. Environments use the Build Number to show which pipeline was last deployed. And so there is a distinction between a build number, which can include info like app name and branch name, and the semver number, which can be included with the build number. However the semver can be used when publishing artefacts from a pipeline, which doesn’t need all the info included in the build number: PowerShellGallery has strict versioning rules, and I don’t know about Pypi, but the convention is to use semantic versioning.

2023-07-10

2021-10

Passing Variables between Triggered Azure DevOps Pipelines

Hello! I have a pipeline that builds and publishes a wheel to Azure Artifacts in Azure DevOps, but I also wanted to take the wheel and publish it to some Azure Databricks workspaces. I could have made this one pipeline, but as there could be potentially a large number of workspaces to publish to I thought it best to write the terrafrom that will publish to the DBFS in a separate repo and make the publishing to workspaces a separate pipeline.

2021-10-11

2020-10

Update Azure DevOps YAML Build Name With Pipeline Variables

Hello! Argh! Yaml! OK, let’s get something totally clear: I really don’t care for YAML pipelines. I get that the idea behind them is so that the pipelines to take the code from source and deploy up to produciton is stored with the source control. And as someone who places a great deal of importance in source-controlling as much as possible, this dislike of yaml-based pipelines might seem something of a surprise.

2020-10-28