Schedule your Pipelines with Azure DevOps

Sometimes it is necessary or just helpful to run some Azure DevOps Pipelines at defined intervals, or in a scheduled manner.

This video is a complete guide with examples about the Schedule Trigger of Azure Pipelines that, as the name says, allow you to schedule your pipelines with Azure DevOps.

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0:00 Intro
1:19 Classic Build Pipelines
2:11 Classic Release Pipelines
2:53 YAML Pipelines - UI vs YAML
3:28 YAML Pipelines - UI
4:20 YAML Pipelines - YAML
7:04 Limitations
7:26 Check Scheduled Runs
8:00 Conclusions

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[ramuchidam]

Thanks for the video, we use scheduler with option "only schedule build if source or pipeline has changed" and it appears to trigger a build no matter what. We use classic pipeline in this specific case, and already reported to Microsoft. It will be nice to get this feature working out of box without our custom workarounds :)

[shivanisaste]

Amazing video.. I couldn't find what I was doing wrong from the documentation or forums.. My pipeline works after I set trigger to none

[kuxjctk]

Hi . It's an amazing and inspiring explanation.
I have a existing build pipeline that needs to trigger on second of every month, can you help me with this? How can I proceed?

Waiting for your reply....

[chitra]

I have multiple stages in a pipeline and i added schedules within the second stage and the yaml file is throwing errors. can we add schedule within a stage?
- stage: SecondStagePythonProject

# schedules:
# - cron: 05-59 10-11 * * 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
# branches:
# include:
# - main
# always: true
jobs:
- job: BuildAndTestPythonJob

[magmichal]

I have a manual pipeline with Triger: none and want to create a cron schedule starting from 7AM Monday till Friday.
trigger:
- none
schedules:
- cron: "0 7 * * 1-5"
displayName: Monday till Friday starting at 7AM
branches:
include:
- master
always: true

Why this is not working?

[CoderDave]

✨ *Question of the day* ✨: What do you use or plan to use the Schedule pipelines for?

[sandyrocks]

@coderdave I do have one doubt on YAML pipelines.. Usually when we create/configure a CI pipeline using an existing YML file, AzDO asks us about the location of the YML along with the branch. Suppose I mention "master" in the branch part and go ahead. But let's say I want to create a feature branch down the line and make some modification (add or remove some steps) to the YML pipeline file in /feature branch and want that to run when I make some changes to /feature branch. How does AzDO know which pipeline to use if I make changes to /feature branch since the actual CI configuration points to "master" branch ?
Thanks in advance

[deneme]

Thanks for the clear explanation. I have an issue. We want to run a script every day at 2am (CET). Here is my code :

trigger: none
schedules:
- cron: "0 1 * * *"
displayName: something
branches:
include:
- master
always: true

the problem is that when there is a merge to master or code update in any branch, it triggers the schedule. we want to run the pipeline only and only once a day regardless what is changed in any branch. Code changes in master or anything else should not trigger the schedule.
Any advice for it? What do I miss here?

Thanks in advance for the answer.

[hadishamil]

how to specify the directory path for the trigger in YAML pipeline?

[kplatt]

How do you set up the yaml when your also using multiple repos?

[jatashankarmishra]

We want to parameterized the schedule and it should run with API having passed the time is that possible ??

[dimitriskrallis]

YAML option doesn't work for me either. Only the UI works fine.

[priyankapriyadarshini]

I tried this approach to run yaml pipeline every 5 min. but still the pipeline doesn't run
trigger: none
schedules:
- cron: "0/5 * * * *"
displayName: build every 5 mins
branches:
include:
- Dev
always: true

[bongsupporters]

Hi,
I'm new to azure pipeline. I have one questions if you could help me to understand that would be great.
1.I have my automation separate test project and able to execute the scripts via azure pipeline by triggering manually. Now my requirement is I've to trigger automation scripts automatically via pipeline when developer does the deployment on the test server.
Note : Developer has there separate project setup in azure pipeline.
Please suggest how would I achieve this. Please guide me on this. I really need a help.