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Setup authentication

doing needs authentication to Azure Devops in order to work. The easiest way to provide authorization is through using a personal access token (PAT).

Creating a personal access token

  • Open dev.azure.com in your browser and sign in with your account.
  • Navigate to your organization's devops space. (for example dev.azure.com/organization_name/)
  • In the top right menu, click on the user gear icon (:fontawesome-solid-user-cog:) and choose 'Personal Access Token' to create a token. See this guide for more detailed instructions.
  • Don't worry about losing this token: you can create a new one easily and just login again with that one.

You can now login to azure devops, pasting your PAT when prompted:

$ az devops login
Token:

If you want to check if you are logged in and have a connection, run the commands az account show -o jsonc and az devops project list -o jsonc. You should see a JSON response. Not working? See Connection problems.