builttoroam / pipeline_templates

Templates for use in build and release pipelines

This is a work in progress - the idea is to make it super easy for developers to setup build and release pipelines.... more to come

pipeline_templates's Issues

Release notes for deploy to app center from source code

In some cases the release notes are found with the version control system, therefore, I think it is convenient to allow to parameterize the release notes from this source, since for now they must be in the artifact directory.

Parameter

- name: appcenter_release_notes_source
  type: string
  default: 'artifact'
  values: 
  - artifact
  - source_control

Variables

- name: release_notes_fullpath
${{ if eq(parameters.appcenter_release_notes_source, 'artifact') }}:
  value: '$(Pipeline.Workspace)/${{ parameters.artifact_name }}/${{ parameters.artifact_folder }}/${{ parameters.appcenter_release_notes_file }}'
${{ if eq(parameters.appcenter_release_notes_source, 'source_control') }}:
  value: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/${{ parameters.appcenter_release_notes_file }}'

I hope something like this can work 😅

License Restrictions?

Hey, I wanted to reach out and thank you for work on these pipeline templates. I'd like to utilize your templates in some of my pipelines, but couldn't find what license they're under. I found the notification on the website that suggested it is ok to use and modify, but it would be handy if you explicitly licensed the work. If you are really looking to share the templates, I would suggest the MIT license.

Github makes it pretty easy from here:
https://github.com/builttoroam/pipeline_templates/community/license/new?branch=master

https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/

Question - why not custom tasks?

It looks like this is meant to be a reusable library of bicep templates. Just curious, but have you considered writing custom tasks instead of templates? If so, I'd be curious to know why you went with templates over tasks?

This project is really great, so please don't take my question as an implicit "bah! they're doing it wrong!" I just was having a read through your bicep-*.yml files and noticed how much conditional stuff there is, checks and safeguards, etc, and I wondered if you might have an easier time with custom tasks instead.