Setup Azure DevOps Discovery

Overview

This step will guide you through the process of setting up Azure DevOps Discovery to automatically find all your catalog-info.yaml files for you.

This is the second (2) step in this guide, once completed you can move onto the next step.

Here's how to enable Azure DevOps Discovery:

Navigate to Catalog Settings
Then click the Ingest button on the Azure DevOps card
Now in the new screen that appears click on the 2nd "+ Add Item" button
Then provide a Key name, your Azure DevOps Organization name works well for this
For host enter dev.azure.com
Then for organization enter your Azure DevOps Organization name
For project you can list a single project but the more common approach is to use * as that will include all your Projects in the provided Organization
You can provide the optional repository and path fields but the default are best for getting started
Next we will provide a frequency, for initial setup we recommend using a short 10 minute frequency, long term a longer 12 hours or 1 day frequency is best
Then for timeout use 15 or 30 minutes
You can skip the optional initialDelay and scope fields, their default are sound
You can now click the Save button in the bottom right to save the configuration you've just set up
In the top right you'll see a pulsing message "Applying new configuration..." as the settings get saved
The message will then change to "New configuration applied successfully." with a Reload button, click it to reload the configuration
Portal is now configured to discovery your catalog-info.yaml files for you!

From here you can now move on to Step 3 where you'll Install the Azure DevOps Annotator Processor to automatically add helpful annotations to your entities.