bradmartin333/devopscli

Azure DevOps CLI Toolkit

DevOpsCLI 💻

Follow these steps to get to automating Azure DevOps

Generate a new token

1. Go to Azure DevOps and click user settings icon next to personal icon in top right
2. Click on the "Personal Access Tokens" option

3. Click "New Token" and match the options (Adjust date as necessary)

4. Copy the token as instructed and save it somewhere locally

Install Azure CLI

1. Download Azure CLI installer from this link
2. Run downloaded file and install as admin
3. Open powershell and execute az to verify install
4. Login to Azure DevOps CLI and install the necessary extension
   • az devops login
   • Y
5. Paste the new token with the right mouse button, then click enter
   • In the case of an error - try closing the shell and starting again from #3
6. Set the organization
   • az devops configure -d organization=https://dev.azure.com/<myorg>/
7. Test showing info for an example work-item
   • az boards work-item show --id 27856
8. If a long return string is printed, then Azure CLI is all set up!

Automation 🚀

This Repo

• Download and use the included .exe for the automation available currently in this repo
  • Right now, all it does is create hardcoded child tasks for a user determined work item
  • If an exception occurs and the program exits, it is likely that the earlier steps were not completed or not enough time has elapsed since the creation of the work item ID
• Clone the repo and tinker as needed with the aid of the Azure CLI docs online

PowerShell ❤

All Windows 10 computers have PowerShell and PowerShell ISE

• Also, all operating systems can install PowerShell
• The same operations performed by the .exe in this repo can be performed and tinkered with using this powershell script
  • GitHub files can be saved by right clicking the "Raw" button in the top right of the file then clicking "Save link as..."
  • Save that file locally, right click it, then click "Run with PowerShell" and enter the User Story ID when prompted
  • Or, open that file in PowerShell ISE to tinker with it (I recommend making this the deafult app for opening .ps1 files)
  • If an exception occurs, the permissions likely are not set - just execute this command in PowerShell
    • Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
  • The online docs for PowerShell and the Azure CLI are very good

devopscli's Issues

Add same tasks to already created User Story

Refactor for new approach

Ability to select team for story point plot

Look ahead some sprints for story point plot