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Johannes Rudolph
Update: Git Reference Support for Azure DevOps Building Block Definitions
We've added optional Git reference support for Azure DevOps pipeline building blocks in meshStack v2026.14.0.
What's available now:
- You can specify an optional Git reference (e.g. a branch or tag like refs/heads/my-branch) in your Azure DevOps pipeline building block definition
- This allows you to pin a building block to a specific branch or tag of your pipeline's repository
- When no Git reference is provided, Azure DevOps uses its default branch as before
Ongoing work:
- Service Principal / Workload Identity Federation authentication: Still on our radar as a follow-up improvement to PAT-based authentication
If you have feedback or need help, reach out to support@meshcloud.io.
Jelle den Burger
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A first Beta version of this will launch next week.
From next release on, you will be able to create Building Block Definitions that trigger your Azure DevOps Pipeline.
Please note that this is just a first Beta version. Some issues might occur and one gap we are aware of is that we only do Personal Access Token authentication for now.
In a later stage we also want to add Service Principal support (with Workload Identitiy Federation) but as we are currently doing a lot of work around WIF for Building Block runners this needs to wait a little.
If you have any feedback on the new feature let us know right here!
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Jelle den Burger
We are currently looking into this. What would be the preferred method of authentication with meshStack & Azure DevOps?
Thomas Abbe
Jelle den Burger The legacy authentication would use PATs. However, service principals or manged identities are recommended:
Since you already support Workfload Identity Federation for Azure Service Principals, I would absolutely go for this. ❤️
And if you enable the same authentication (Workfload Identity Federation) to checkout Azure Devops Git Repos, this would be great!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you
Jelle den Burger
Thomas Abbe: Thanks for the answer, Thomas! We will take this into consideration when building out the feature :-)
Jelle den Burger
Thank you for your feature request! I assume this should work similarly to our GitHub Action Workflow triggering where a pipeline gets executed in Azure DevOps?
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Christina Kraus
Jelle den Burger Yes exactly!