Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “deployment”
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Workload Identity Federation
There is no reason not to switch to Workload Identity Federation for Service Connections in Azure DevOps. Compared to secret-based connections, it offers several compelling benefits:
Firstly, you eliminate the need for secrets. This means no more manual or automatic rotation of secrets, or worse, being caught off guard when secrets expire unnoticed. Secondly, it’s more secure. Secrets used across multiple projects and stored in key vaults or, even worse, in tools like OneNote, are far more susceptible to compromise than the new identity federation approach.
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Git Merge develop to main in an Azure DevOps Release
This post is a techy one. It’s about running git commands in Azure DevOps Releases in order to finalize a deployment job to production.
Let me first describe our scenario: We use Azure DevOps for code and for deployment. Our branch strategy a simplified Gitflow model, where all the current work is merged to the “develop” branch. The code from the “develop” branch is then built and released to staging environments and production.