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Allow Pipelines to have Tags/Metadata like Azure Resources
We need the ability to add metadata to Azure DevOps Pipelines such as “Domain”, “Capability”, “Team”, “SRE Owner”, etc. This information needs to be available in the pipeline/ api response. It would also be useful to have the ability to filter/search by this in the UI, but that is not important for my immediate use case.
Currently, to obtain this data, we are maintaining a separate reference table. It is not ideal.
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Hi, I agree this would be useful. Azure DevOps pipelines do not currently behave like Azure resources with native tag metadata in the same way. As a workaround, I would keep metadata in pipeline YAML variables, naming conventions, folder structure, or a small inventory file in the repo, then use the REST API to combine that with pipeline data for reporting.
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It's quite frustrating that this is still not possible. Out of dozens of builds we have about half that need to be kicked off manually in a batch from time to time. We have a script to do this but need to constantly update it with new pipeline definition IDs. Would be great if we could just tag the builds somehow & have the script query them.
Seems not a straight forward way, may refer to below discussion for some insight:
- Tagging an individual build in this way does have it's uses. However, I am looking to apply tags at the pipeline object level.
