Control-M for Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps provides an integrated set of services and tools to manage your software projects, from planning and development through testing and deployment. Azure DevOps delivers services through a client/server model.
Control-M for Azure DevOps enables you to do the following:
- Execute Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Manage Azure DevOps credentials in a secure connection profile.
- Connect to any Azure DevOps endpoint.
- Integrate Azure DevOps jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
- Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Azure DevOps, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
- Monitor the job status, results, and output of Azure DevOps jobs.
- Attach an SLA job to the Azure DevOps jobs.
Control-M for Azure DevOps Compatibility
The following table lists the prerequisites that are required to use the Azure DevOps plug-in, each with its minimum required version.
Component | Version |
|---|---|
Control-M/EM | 9.0.21.100 |
Control-M/Agent | 9.0.21.100 |
Control-M Application Integrator | 9.0.21.100 |
Control-M Automation API | 9.0.21.100 |
Control-M for Azure DevOps is supported on Control-M Web and Control-M Automation API, but not on Control-M client.
To download the required installation files for each prerequisite, see Obtaining-Control-M-Installation-Files.
Setting up Control-M for Azure DevOps
This procedure describes how to deploy the Azure DevOps plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Azure DevOps job in Control-M Web and Automation API.
Before You Begin
Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Automation API Installation.
Begin
- Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.
- Download the Azure DevOps plug-in from the Control-M for Azure DevOps download page in the EPD site.
- Install the Azure DevOps plug-in using the Automation API Provision service:
- Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
- Linux: $HOME/ctm_em/AUTO_DEPLOY
- Windows: <EM_HOME>\AUTO_DEPLOY
- Log in to the Control-M/Agent machine and run the provision image command, as follows:
- Linux: ctm provision image Azure_DevOps_plugin.Linux
- Windows: ctm provision image Azure_DevOps_plugin.Windows
- Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
- Create an Azure DevOps connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
- Define an Azure DevOps job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
- Web: Creating a Job with Azure DevOps Job parameters
- Automation API: Job:Azure DevOps