Azure DevOps (ADO)

Add Git connection

To add Azure DevOps personal git tokens in Brainboard, you first need to generate an Azure DevOps personal access token.

Steps to generate a personal access token on your Azure DO account.

1. Go to your Azure DO page.

2. Click on the top right icon and then select Personal access tokens:

   

3. It will open the page of access tokens. Click on New token button.

   

4. In the menu, add the following information:

   • Name of the token.

   • You can set an expiration date.

   • In the code section, select Full

     

5. The token is generated, you can copy it to add to Brainboard:

   

To add the generated token in Brainboard:

1. Go to the Git integration settings page.

2. Click on Integrations

3. In the section Personal connections Click on Add connection

4. Select Azure DevOps tab
   

   

5. Add your credentials in the displayed window:

   • Name of the token. This is only for Brainboard, it will not be used when you do a pull request.
   • The URL of your Azure DevOps organization.

     • To get this URL, the simplest way is to click on Azure DevOps on the top-left button then copy the URL of the browser

       

   • Token: the token (secret) generated from your Azure DO account.

6. Then click on Save and close button.

7. Brainboard will verify if the credentials are valid:

   1. If they are valid, Brainboard displays a success message and you can see the integration now in the Git connection page
      

      

   2. If they are not, you'll receive an error about what is wrong. For example:
      

      

      

How to use

Please refer to the page pull-requests.md to understand how you can use your git connections whether you want to do a pull request and import your code from Git.

Edit or delete connection

1. Go to the Git integration settings page.
2. Click on Integrations
3. In the section Personal connections Click on the Azure DevOps integration that you want to edit or delete
4. Select the action you want to perform from the view