BulkRun Powershell Script for Azure Pipelines

Azure Devops provides a great UI for managing and run the pipelines, but sometimes we need to run it manually, just to reuse the deployment logic or when its required to run many of them.

To accomplish this job, I created a simple powershell script to run a set of pipeline programmatically by using the Azure Devops rest API and it requires a Personal Access Token

Example

# Step 1: Create the pipeline on Azure Devops with following yaml code. Below an example with parameters.

parameters:
  - name: name
    displayName: "Name"
    type: string
  - name: surname
    displayName: "Surname"
    type: string

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- script: echo Hello ${{ parameters.name }} ${{ parameters.surname }}
  displayName: 'Run a one-line script'

# Step 2: Create a pipeline definition file (pipetorun.csv) with the information to run an ado pipeline for each row.
# The definitionid is the definitionid of Azure Devops pipeline
# Branch is the pipeline's branch.
# Parameters are defined as a dictionary (key=value separate by semicolon, key is equal the pipeline parameter name)

definitionid,name,branch,parameters
12,hello,main,name=Alan;surname=Turing
12,hello,main,name=Clude;surname=Shannon
12,hello,main,name=Tim;surname=Berners-Lee
12,hello,main,name=Edsger;surname=Dijkstra
12,hello,main,name=Leslie;surname=Lamport

# Step 3: Run five pipeline by using the script and the defintion file. (How to create a PAT )

.\BulkRun.ps1 -PAT personal-access-token -File .\pipetorun.csv

# Result

hello inProgress on main -> https://dev.azure.com/dimotta/demo/_build/results?buildId=119
hello inProgress on main -> https://dev.azure.com/dimotta/demo/_build/results?buildId=120
hello inProgress on main -> https://dev.azure.com/dimotta/demo/_build/results?buildId=121
hello inProgress on main -> https://dev.azure.com/dimotta/demo/_build/results?buildId=122
hello inProgress on main -> https://dev.azure.com/dimotta/demo/_build/results?buildId=123

The BulkRun script code is available here