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  • Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps
    by Suraj Guptha on November 18, 2024 at 5:39 pm

    We are thrilled to announce that Managed DevOps Pools for Azure DevOps is now generally available! This milestone marks a significant advancement in our mission to improve developer productivity in the CI/CD loop, reduce your cloud bill for ES infra and to reduce the toil associated with creating and maintaining custom CI/CD infrastructure for your The post Announcing the General Availability of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image
    by Eric van Wijk on October 1, 2024 at 12:44 pm

    Azure DevOps is starting the deprecation process for the macOS-12 (Monterey) hosted pilelines image. While the image is being deprecated, you may experience longer queue times during peak usage hours. Deprecation will begin on October 7 and the image will be fully unsupported by December 3. Pipeline jobs using the macOS-12 image label should be The post Deprecation of the macOS-12 Hosted Pipeline Image appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Announcing Public Preview of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps
    by Suraj Guptha on August 2, 2024 at 6:39 pm

    Engineering teams ideally want to spend all their time writing code to create applications and services for their users! In reality, many end up spending a significant portion of their time on other tasks, such as maintaining DevOps infrastructure. In Azure DevOps, Microsoft-hosted agents (aka Azure Pipelines agents) provide a fully managed, low overhead way The post Announcing Public Preview of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Azure Pipelines deprecated tasks retirement schedule
    by Eric van Wijk on February 16, 2024 at 3:27 pm

    Azure Pipelines includes around 150 build & release tasks as well as many more task extensions. Various included tasks have multiple (major) versions bringing the total to over included 200 tasks. Some of these tasks have been deprecated for some time, as newer tasks have replaced them. Deprecation means the task is still supported, before The post Azure Pipelines deprecated tasks retirement schedule appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • JUnit Attachments Support for Publish Test Results
    by David Paquette on February 15, 2024 at 4:28 pm

    We’ve recently made some improvements to the Publish Test Results task in Azure Pipelines. This task now supports file attachments when publishing test results from a JUnit report. JUnit Attachments Report Format The JUnit XML report format doesn’t officially have support for file attachments but there is a common convention of including attachments in the The post JUnit Attachments Support for Publish Test Results appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Workload identity federation for Azure deployments is now generally available
    by Eric van Wijk on February 13, 2024 at 7:16 am

    In September, we announced the ability to configure Azure service connections that do not need a secret. Azure service connections that use workload identity federation are easier to manage and more secure. Many customers have adopted this feature and we’re excited to announce it is now generally available! Improved security Workload identity federation enforces how The post Workload identity federation for Azure deployments is now generally available appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Git Partial Clone Now Supported in Azure DevOps
    by Michael Carlson on November 1, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    Git Partial Clone Treeless and blobless Git Partial Clones are now enabled in Azure DevOps for all customers! Partial clones are a reduced type of git clone that users create via specific arguments on the git command line. For large repositories with a lot of history, they offer a dramatic performance improvement compared to a The post Git Partial Clone Now Supported in Azure DevOps appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines
    by Eric van Wijk on September 11, 2023 at 8:01 am

    Do you want to stop storing secrets and certificates in Azure service connections? Are you tired rotating these secrets whenever they expire? We are now announcing a public preview of workload identity federation for Azure service connections. Workload identity federation uses an industry-standard technology, Open ID Connect (OIDC), to simplify the authentication between Azure Pipelines The post Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Improvements to code coverage experience under test automation
    by Ravi Kumar on July 20, 2023 at 5:54 pm

    If you’re using Azure DevOps for your CI/CD pipeline, you may be interested in our recent improvements to code coverage testing. Code coverage tests can help you identify areas of your code that are not tested, or not tested enough, and improve the quality of your automated tests and overall code quality. With our recent The post Improvements to code coverage experience under test automation appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

  • Service Connection guidance for AKS customers using Kubernetes tasks
    by Eric van Wijk on April 13, 2023 at 1:24 pm

    Kubernetes tasks & Service Connections Azure DevOps supports Kubernetes deployments with a number of included tasks: AzureFunctionOnKubernetes HelmDeploy Kubernetes KubernetesManifest These tasks can be configured to target a Kubernetes cluster in a number of ways, using the connectionType property: Connection Type Description Azure Resource Manager Let’s you select an AKS instance. Does not access Kubernetes The post Service Connection guidance for AKS customers using Kubernetes tasks appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.

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