Powershell to trigger a build in Azure DevOps

Question

We have just migrated our code from on-site TFS to Azure DevOps.

With TFS, I use a powershell script to build and deploy the application. The deployment part still work

Answer 1

I ended up doing this and it works:

Function Queue-Build ($definitionName, $branchName)
{
    Write-Host "Building $definitionName - $branchName"
    $build = (vsts build queue --project [project_name] --instance [server_name] --definition-name $definitionName --branch $branchName) | Out-String | ConvertFrom-Json

    #wait for the build to complete
    while ($build.status -ne "completed") {
        Start-Sleep -s 5
        $build = (vsts build show --id $build.id --instance [server_name] --project [project_name]) | Out-String | ConvertFrom-Json
        #Write-Host $build.status
    }
}

vsts login --token PAT_created_in_DevOps

$sourceBranch = [branch_name]
Queue-Build [build_definition_name] $sourceBranch