Random notes on Azure

• How to set an organization as default using the az cli

  az devops configure --defaults organization <organization url, e.g. https://dev.azure.com/...>
  

• How to set a Personal Access Token (PAT) for all az commands

  export AZURE_DEVOPS_EXT_PAT=<personal_pat>
  

• How to use git with PAT: PAT tokens with git.
  (also works using "Authorization: Bearer $PAT" instead of basic and b64).
  For git LFS use something like:

  git config http.$origin_url.extraheader "AUTHORIZATION: bearer $SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN"
  git fetch -f origin develop:develop
  git config --unset http.$origin_url.extraheader
  

• How to get the list of builds for a pipeline

  az pipelines build list --project <projectname> --definition-ids <definition_id>
  

• How to enforce using Java 11 in Azure DevOps pipelines

  - script: |
      echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=JAVA_HOME]$(JAVA_HOME_11_X64)"
      echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=PATH]$(JAVA_HOME_11_X64)/bin:$(PATH)"
    displayName: "Set java 11"
  

• How to create WorkItems in Azure boards via cli: Create work items in Azure Boards

• Set a full environment in Bash

• How to call the Azure DevOps REST API: Get PAT Token Make REST call using Basic Authentication with username and PAT (as password) e.g.

  curl "https://dev.azure.com/cbsp-abnamro/_apis/projects?api-version=7.0" -u "mario.negro.ponzi:<PAT>"
  

  • Also usfeul: REST call with Azure CLI

• How to create Azure Functions with the REST API: Creating Azure Function with REST API

• How to edit a PAT via REST API: PAT Editing REST API

• How to format the output in the pipelines in azure DevOps: Format output
  TL;DR

  ##[group]Beginning of a group
  ##[warning]Warning message
  ##[error]Error message
  ##[section]Start of a section
  ##[debug]Debug text
  ##[command]Command-line being run
  ##[endgroup]
  

• How to use pipeline parameters and read them in a bash script

  parameters:
  - name: publish
    displayName: Publish?
    type: boolean
    default: true
  
  ...
  
  - bash: |
    echo ${{ parameters.publish }}
  
    if [ ${{ parameters.publish }} == 'True' ]
    then
      echo "true"
    else
      echo "false"
    fi
  displayName: 'Echo and check'