Today I was confronted with an unexpected behavior of Azure DevOps Services. An external user got invited to a private Azure DevOps project by following the steps below. Open a private Azure DevOps project Click the Invite button in the upper right corner Enter email address of external user Select the team the user should... Continue Reading →
[HOWTO] Limit the number of Microsoft-hosted agents that can be used by an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline
Usually an Azure DevOps Services organization contains multiple projects. Often for some of these projects YAML pipelines are set up, which are triggered on every pull request and commit to the develop and main branches. Let's assume that in one or more of these Azure DevOps projects a whole bunch of YAML pipelines is set... Continue Reading →
[HOWTO] Renew Client Secret of Azure DevOps Service Connection
When creating a Azure DevOps service connection of type Azure Resource Manager that uses authentication method service principal (automatic), a service principal and a app registration get created in the corresponding Azure tenant. Furthermore a client secret gets added to the app registration for the service connection. Unfortunately the client secret expires after two years... Continue Reading →