Streamline Your DevOps Processes by Leveraging External Tools in Azure Pipelines

Learn how to integrate your Azure Pipelines with external tools, including Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI. This guide will show you how to configure your pipelines to work seamlessly with these popu …


Updated September 16, 2023

Learn how to integrate your Azure Pipelines with external tools, including Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI. This guide will show you how to configure your pipelines to work seamlessly with these popular DevOps tools.

Introduction

Azure Pipelines is a powerful tool for automating the build, test, and deployment processes of your software projects. However, sometimes it’s necessary to integrate Azure Pipelines with external tools to achieve the desired level of flexibility and control. In this guide, we’ll show you how to configure your pipelines to work seamlessly with popular DevOps tools like Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI.

Jenkins Integration

Jenkins is a widely-used open-source automation server that can be integrated with Azure Pipelines to enhance your DevOps processes. To integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines, you’ll need to install the Azure Pipelines plugin on your Jenkins instance. Here are the steps:

  1. Install the Azure Pipelines plugin on your Jenkins instance by following the instructions in the Azure Pipelines documentation.
  2. Once the plugin is installed, you can configure your Jenkins job to trigger an Azure Pipeline build by adding a post-build action in your Jenkins job configuration. To do this, go to Manage Jenkins > Configure System and add a new post-build action called Trigger an Azure Pipelines build.
  3. In the Azure Pipelines build trigger section, select the Azure Pipeline that you want to trigger from your Jenkins job. You can also configure any additional parameters or variables that should be passed to the Azure Pipeline.
  4. Save your changes and run your Jenkins job. When the job completes successfully, it will automatically trigger an Azure Pipeline build using the configuration specified in step 3.

Travis CI Integration

Travis CI is a popular continuous integration platform that can be integrated with Azure Pipelines to automate your build and test processes. To integrate Travis CI with Azure Pipelines, you’ll need to create a new Azure Pipeline resource in your Travis CI configuration file. Here are the steps:

  1. Create a new Azure Pipeline resource in your Travis CI configuration file by adding the following code snippet to your travis.yml file:
resource_types:
- name: azure-pipeline
  type: docker-image
  source:
    repository: mcr.microsoft.com/azure-pipelines/resource-type/azure-pipelines
  1. Once the Azure Pipeline resource is created, you can use it to trigger an Azure Pipeline build from your Travis CI job by adding a new stage in your travis.yml file:
stages:
  - name: deploy
    azure_pipeline: my-azure-pipeline
  1. Replace my-azure-pipeline with the name of your Azure Pipeline that you want to trigger from Travis CI.
  2. Save your changes and run your Travis CI job. When the job completes successfully, it will automatically trigger an Azure Pipeline build using the configuration specified in step 2.

CircleCI Integration

CircleCI is another popular continuous integration platform that can be integrated with Azure Pipelines to automate your build and test processes. To integrate CircleCI with Azure Pipelines, you’ll need to create a new Azure Pipeline step in your CircleCI configuration file. Here are the steps:

  1. Create a new Azure Pipeline step in your CircleCI configuration file by adding the following code snippet to your config.yml file:
version: 2.1
jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: mcr.microsoft.com/azure-pipelines/circleci/azure-pipelines
  1. Once the Azure Pipeline step is created, you can use it to trigger an Azure Pipeline build from your CircleCI job by adding a new stage in your config.yml file:
stages:
  - name: deploy
    azure_pipeline: my-azure-pipeline
  1. Replace my-azure-pipeline with the name of your Azure Pipeline that you want to trigger from CircleCI.
  2. Save your changes and run your CircleCI job. When the job completes successfully, it will automatically trigger an Azure Pipeline build using the configuration specified in step 2.

Conclusion

In this guide, we’ve shown you how to integrate Azure Pipelines with external tools like Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI. By following these steps, you can enhance your DevOps processes by leveraging the power of these popular DevOps tools. Whether you’re using Jenkins, Travis CI, or CircleCI, integrating them with Azure Pipelines is a great way to streamline your build, test, and deployment processes.