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[ALM Accelerator - Feature]: add Repo and version descriptor files #3680

Closed jenschristianschroder closed 1 year ago

jenschristianschroder commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

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Describe the solution you'd like

Would be good to add a text file to both pipeline repos and project repos that would help identify the type of Repo and the version of aa4pp installed. This would enable identification that could be used in troubleshooting or diagnostics scenarios

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megel commented 1 year ago

@jenschristianschroder here is something which works pretty good for 1000+ projects:

For our MSDyn365BC pipeline templates I have used a yaml-file like this:

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Furthermore, I have included this file into our pipeline templates. This is because: 1) I see directly in my pipeline runs the current template version image 1) I see also in our central telemetry (Application Insights) the version of all Projects / Template repos (age, source branch, version, ...):

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  <img width="271" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15800069/194566007-ba7e524f-1a11-47fe-8abb-b88715a3415f.png">
jenschristianschroder commented 1 year ago

Thanks @megel !

CoEStarterKitBot commented 1 year ago

@jenschristianschroder This has been fixed in the latest release. Please install the latest version of the toolkit following the instructions for installing updates. Note that if you do not remove the unmanaged layers as described there you will not receive updates from us.