Creating a Azure release when a github release is created?

Question

I have created the following trigger/artifact source

I was expecting that when I create a release on github, it would automatically create the same release on Azure DevOps.

But that does not seem to happen, did I do something wrong? Or is there some other way to automatically run a deploy pipeline when a release is created on github?

Answer 1

I managed to get it working by adding a Azure CI pipeline that creates a Artifact when a tag is created.

trigger:
  tags:
    include:
    - '*'

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

name: '$(Build.SourceBranchName)'

steps:
- task: CopyFiles@2
  inputs:
    sourceFolder: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)'
    contents: |
      **/*
      !.git/**/*
    targetFolder: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
  inputs:
    PathtoPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
    ArtifactName: 'drop'
    publishLocation: 'Container'

Then I use the azure artifact as source/trigger in my release pipeline, you can also set Release name format to $(Build.BuildNumber) so that the release has the same name as the tag.