Enabling Manual Triggers for Azure DevOps Pipeline Stages

Azure DevOps pipeline stages now support manual triggers, allowing for more flexibility. There are situations where some stages of a pipeline should run automatically, while others may require manual intervention. This blog explains how to configure a manual trigger for Azure DevOps pipeline stages.

Pre-requisites: Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline

To enable a manual trigger for a specific stage, include the trigger: manual option in the pipeline's YAML definition. Below is an example pipeline demonstrating how to configure a manual trigger for a stage.

Advanced Input Variable Validation with Terraform

Terraform provides a variable validation feature that allows defining conditions to validate variable inputs. Previously, variable validation only allowed validating the input of the variable itself. However, starting with Terraform 1.9, this feature has been enhanced to allow the addition of validation conditions that reference other input variables and objects. This blog presents a simple example that explains how to add a condition to one variable that references another variable.

Pre-requites: Terraform 1.9 or greater

The following sample script is used to create two Azure resource groups. One in the West Europe region and the other in the East US region. The two resource groups should not be created in the same region.