Use single deployment group for multiple projects azure devops
I have one azure devops organization with 1 project, using the organizations deployment pool.
I've recently created a second project (newProject2) and want to use these same agents in the organizations pool.
Without configuring anything, the pools already show up in newProject2. See below:
However, when I want to reference them in my .yml pipeline, like so:
I get the following message while trying to execute the pipeline: Enviroment required.
However, all the agents installed on the machines are registered in the other project's environment and I have to install a new agent on the same machine to have them show up in newProject2. This is understandably not recommended and a dead end.
As I understand it, the usage of a deployment group is only available in a classic pipeline. This has several drawbacks which I won't go into here.
My question is: Is it possible to deploy to an existing deployment pool from multiple (a different/secondary) projects (in a .yml pipeline) and if so, how?
Is it possible to deploy to an existing deployment pool from multiple (a different/secondary) projects (in a .yml pipeline) and if so, how?
I am afraid that there is no such method could achieve your requirements for the time being.
There are two limits:
1.In YAML Pipeline, we could only use the Pipeline Environments. The deployment group couldn't be using in YAML pipeline.
For more detailed info, you could refer to this doc: Deployment group jobs
2.When you share the pipeline env between projects, it is shared in the form of a deployment group.
Therefore, the same pipeline environment cannot be reused in YAML pipelines of different projects.
But your requirement makes sense.
Here are the suggestion tickets in our UserVoice site: