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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook

You're reading from   Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook Proven recipes to accelerate your DevOps journey with Azure DevOps Server 2019 (formerly TFS)

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839259
Length 456 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tarun Arora Tarun Arora
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Utkarsh Shigihalli Utkarsh Shigihalli
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Tracking Work FREE CHAPTER 2. Source Control Management 3. Build and Release Agents 4. Continuous Integration and Build Automation 5. Continuous Testing 6. Continuous Deployments 7. Azure Artifacts and Dependency Management 8. Azure DevOps Extensions 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a service connection extension to connect to GitLab


Service connections in Azure DevOps Server (and Services) lets you connect to external services. Service connections once created can be used in your build or release pipelines.

Note

Service connections are created at the project level. This means a service connection created for one project is not available in another project.

GitLab, if you don't know already, is another cloud Git service provider. Azure DevOps Server, by default, provides a service connection to connect to GitHub and lets you connect to an external Git repository using an External Git connection. Unfortunately, the External Git service connection lets you connect to one repository (or project if you are a GitLab user):

If you need to connect to another repository, you need to create another service connection with a different Git repository URL and save it as a different service connection.

We can solve this problem by creating a custom service connection that lets...

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