Azure DevOps PowerShell Module - Part 1

If you are like me - at least in terms of lazyness - you automate the stuff that you face more than once. Recently, I came accross the reoccuring task of creating Azure DevOps projects with several teams over and over again.

• Part 1 - Introduction

This is the first post of many other posts to come and I would really appreciate some feedback!

Since I'm a PowerShell guy, I started writing a little Module for this and the first version is now online!

You can get it directly from the PowerShell Gallery:

Install

Install-Module -Name AzDOps

The new Azure PowerShell module uses the prefix 'Az' (Microsoft Docs link) for the cmdlets - the cmdlets for Azure DevOps use 'AzDo'.

Connect-AzDo
Disconnect-AzDo
Get-AzDoGitRepository
Get-AzDoProcesses
Get-AzDoProject
Get-AzDoProjectHistory
Get-AzDoProjectProperties
Get-AzDoSecurityNamespace
Get-AzDoTeam
New-AzDoGitRepository
New-AzDoProject
New-AzDoTeam
Remove-AzDoGitRepository
Remove-AzDoProject
Remove-AzDoTeam

Connect

To connect to your Azure DevOps organization, you have to create a personal access token first. Open this link and follow the instructions. Afterwards, you can save both, the token as well as the name of your Azure DevOps organization as a string to a variable - then you can connect:

$token = "token"
$organizationName = "orgName"

Connect-AzDo -PersonalAccessTokens $token -OrganizationName $organizationName

In the future, there will also be an interactive way to connect using Oauth2 - it's planned for the next releases. Right now, the connection is being established using basic authentication.

When you're connected, you can start using the cmdlets:

Get-AzDoProject
Get-AzDoTeam -ProjectId '<projectId>'
New-AzDoProject -Name 'ProjectOne'