Saturday, December 28, 2024

Understanding Repository Health and Usage in Azure DevOps

Maintaining optimal repository health is crucial factor to ensure performance and reliability. Azure DevOps Health and usage provides several helpful factors like repository size, object numbers, commit frequency, contents, and structure that can be usable to ensure performance and reliability.

Azure DevOps Repository Health and usage give values for the followings.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Working with Unskippable Stages in Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps pipelines have several stages, and we can use these stages to fulfill various specific automation requirements. However, there can be stages that should not be skipped during the deployment process for any reason. For example, some organizations may have a policy that it is mandatory to run automated tests before deployment, or it is mandatory to run a security scan stage. By default, Azure DevOps allows its users to skip stages when initiating a new pipeline run. Now, Azure DevOps has introduced a new property that can be used with YAML pipelines to disable the option to skip stages during the pipeline creation.

Pre-requisites:

Azure DevOps YAML pipeline with multiple stages