Install the Azure Boards app for GitHub
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Install the Azure Boards app for GitHub to connect Azure Boards to your GitHub repositories. When you connect Azure Boards projects with GitHub.com repositories, you support linking between GitHub commits and pull requests to work items. You can use GitHub for software development while using Azure Boards to plan and track your work.
For an overview of the integration that the Azure Boards app for GitHub supports, see Azure Boards-GitHub integration. Once you install the Azure Boards app for GitHub on your GitHub account or organization, choose which GitHub repositories you want to connect to from your project.
Prerequisites
- To install the Azure Boards app, you must be an administrator or owner of the GitHub organization.
- To connect to the Azure Boards project, you must have read permission to the GitHub repository. Also, you must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group. If you created the project, then you have permissions.
Important
If your repository is already connected via another authentication type such as OAuth, you must remove that repository from your existing connection before you re-connect it via the GitHub App. Follow the steps provided in Add or remove GitHub repositories later in this article before you configure the GitHub App.
You can connect an Azure DevOps organization to multiple GitHub repositories if you're an administrator for those repositories. However, you shouldn't connect a GitHub repository to more than one Azure DevOps organization.
Give Azure Boards organization access
Do the following steps to grant organization access.
From the GitHub web portal, open Settings from your profile menu.
Select Applications under Integrations.
Select Authorized OAuth Apps > Azure Boards.
Under Organization access, resolve any issues that may appear. Select Grant to grant access to any organizations that show as having an Access request pending.
Install and configure the Azure Boards app
Go to the Azure Boards app in the GitHub Marketplace.
Select Set up a plan.
Choose the GitHub organization you want to connect to Azure Boards.
Choose the repositories that you want to connect to Azure Boards.
Here we choose to connect to all repositories.
Choose the Azure DevOps organization and Azure Boards project you want to connect to GitHub.com.
You can only connect one project at a time. If you have other projects you want to connect, you can do that later as described in Configure other projects or repositories later in this article.
Authorize your Azure Boards organization to connect with GitHub.com.
Confirm the GitHub.com repositories that you want to connect. Select each repository you want to connect to. Unselect any repositories that you don't want to participate in the integration.
Use the connection
At this point, your Azure Boards-GitHub integration is complete. You can skip the next steps or run through them to understand the features supported with the connection.
Select Create to add a work item—Issue (Basic), User Story (Agile), or Product Backlog Item (Scrum)—depending on the process model used by your Azure Boards project.
A work item titled Add badge to README appears on your Azure Boards.
Select Create and link a pull request.
This step runs the following actions in the background:
- Adds a badge to the README file of the first repository in the list of connected GitHub repositories
- Creates a GitHub commit for the update made by adding the badge to the README file
- Creates a GitHub pull request to merge the changes made to the README file
- Links the GitHub commit and pull request to the work item created in step 1.
Select View work item to open the work item you created in step 1. Note the links under the Development section that correspond to the commit and pull request created in GitHub.com
Choose the pull request link, the first link in the list, to open the pull request in GitHub.
The GitHub pull request opens in a new browser tab.
Complete the pull request.
Go to your repository README file and view the badge that was added.
For more information, see Configure status badges to add to GitHub README files.
Configure other projects or repositories
You can configure other Azure Boards/Azure DevOps Projects, GitHub.com repositories, or change the current configuration from the Azure Boards app page. For more information, see Change GitHub repository access, or suspend or uninstall the integration.
Add or remove repositories, or remove a connection from Azure Boards
If you encounter a problem with a connection, we recommend that you remove the connection and start over with a new connection.
To add or remove repositories, choose
More options for the connection and choose Add repositories or Remove repositories from the menu.
To remove all repositories and the connection, choose the Remove connection option. Then, choose Remove to confirm.
To add or remove repositories, open the
actions icon for the connection and choose Add repositories or Remove repositories from the menu.
To remove all repositories and the connection, choose the Remove connection option. Then, choose Remove to confirm.
Change repository access
Sign into the web portal for your GitHub organization and open Account settings.
https://github.com/organizations/fabrikam-fiber/settings/profileChoose Installed GitHub Apps and then Configure next to Azure Boards.
The Azure Boards configuration page opens.
Scroll down to the Repository access section.
Choose the option you want, All repositories or Only select repositories.
If you choose Only select repositories, select the repositories you want to participate in integration with Azure Boards.
Choose Save when you're done.
Suspend or uninstall Azure Boards integration
Starting from step 2 in the previous procedure, scroll down to the Danger zone section.
To suspend the integration, choose Suspend. From the popup confirmation window, choose OK to confirm the suspension.
To unsuspend the integration, choose Unsuspend.
To uninstall the Azure Boards app, choose Uninstall, and then choose OK from the popup confirmation window.
Update Azure Boards-GitHub connections
If you change the repositories that the Azure Boards app for GitHub supports, you may be redirected to Azure Boards GitHub connections. A good practice is to remove the repositories in Azure Boards that can no longer connect to GitHub. For more information, see Add or remove GitHub repositories.
If you uninstall the Azure Boards app for GitHub, you'll see the following message in Azure Boards, Project Settings>GitHub Connections. Choose Remove connection to remove all GitHub connections that have been previously made. See also, Add or remove GitHub repositories.
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