I’ve been currently busy trying to learn AzureDevops and migrating projects from an on-prem GitLab, And since I am at it, why not take this opportunity to improve the terraform modules pipelines and add a few more steps to them being one of those steps precisely to version the modules when new code is merged. A simple task isn’t it? After all, I already have this implemented in so many other projects, here, here, and … here and … well, what seemed to be a simple task that to be achieved in just a few minutes turned into a day of bad choices, frustrations and stubbornly digging through documentation that is not very clear, trying out other tools like GitVersion whose documentation is also not very digestible. Although I was close to reaching the goal I never really got there and I was never really satisfied with the result! after that I decided to go back to semantic-release and give it another try (I should never have tried any other way!!). After reading the initial errors a little more carefully and doing a little bit more research I arrived here and everything started to make more sense! Here is the record of how I configured everything just in case someone is his needing the same thing.

TLDR; AzureDevops is not the most intuitive platform to work with, but it is not that bad. Some days we only complicate things, and if I had paid attention to the errors from the start, I would have saved myself many hours of running in circles

Project Settings

Open the Project => Project settings => Repositories => Security tab => Select “… Build Service” => Set the following settings to allow: “Contribute”, “Create Branch”, “Create Tag”, “manage notes” and “Read”

ProjecSettings

Configuração da “pipeline”

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

### Rest of the pipeline ###
### Release stage is skipped on Pull Requests, manual triggers and Scheduled events
- stage: release
    condition: and(succeeded(), ne(variables['Build.Reason'], 'Schedule'), ne(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest'), ne(variables['Build.Reason'], 'Manual'))
    jobs:
    - job: release
      steps:
      - checkout: self
        persistCredentials: true
        clean: true
      - script: |
          npx semantic-release          
       
        displayName: semantic-release

Configurações da semantic-release

{
  "name": "aws-vpc",
  "plugins": [],
  "release": {
    "branches": [ "master", "release", "test", "dev" ]
  },

  "branches": [
    {name: 'master'},
    {name: 'release', channel: 'release', prerelease: true},
    {name: 'test', channel: 'test', prerelease: true},
    {name: 'dev', channel: 'dev', prerelease: true}
  ]
}