This page describes the different ways how the Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin can be setup.

NTLM authentication

To authenticate with NTLM you can use the AzureDevOpsAuthenticationNtlm alias from the Cake.AzureDevOps addin.

The user needs to have Contribute to pull requests permission for the specific repository to allow Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin to post issues as comments to pull requests.

Basic authentication

To authenticate with basic authentication you can use the AzureDevOpsAuthenticationBasic alias from the Cake.AzureDevOps addin and need to [Configure AzureDevOps Server to use Basic Authentication].

The user needs to have Contribute to pull requests permission for the specific repository to allow Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin to post issues as comments to pull requests.

Personal access token

To authenticate with an personal access token you can use the AzureDevOpsAuthenticationPersonalAccessToken alias from the Cake.AzureDevOps addin.

If you want to use the Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin with an personal access token see Authenticate access with personal access tokens for Azure DevOps for instructions how to create a personal access token.

The access token needs to have the scope Code (read and write) set and the user needs to have Contribute to pull requests permission for the specific repository to allow Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin to post issues as comments to pull requests.

OAuth authentication from Azure Pipelines

If you want to use the Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin from an Azure Pipelines you can authenticate using the OAuth token provided to the build. For this you need to enable the Allow scripts to access the OAuth token option on the build definition.

To authenticate you can use the AzureDevOpsAuthenticationOAuth alias from the Cake.AzureDevOps addin.

The user under which the build runs, named <projectName> Build Service (<organizationName>) (e.g. Cake.Issues-Demo Build Service (cake-contrib)), needs to have Contribute to pull requests permission for the specific repository to allow Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin to post issues as comments to pull requests.

Azure Active Directory

To authenticate with Azure Active Directory you can use the AzureDevOpsAuthenticationAzureActiveDirectory alias from the Cake.AzureDevOps addin.

The user needs to have Contribute to pull requests permission for the specific repository to allow Cake.Issues.PullRequests.AzureDevOps addin to post issues as comments to pull requests.