renovate/lib/modules/manager/azure-pipelines/readme.md

The azure-pipelines manager is disabled by default. This is because there's no way for Renovate to know whether new task versions are yet available with the Azure DevOps environment, so new versions proposed by Renovate could fail.

To opt into running it, set the following:

{
  "azure-pipelines": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

In most cases only major version numbers are specified in YAML when referencing a task version: NodeTool@0. By default, Renovate replaces these with the full version: NodeTool@0.216.0.

To use the standard convention for Azure Pipelines, add:

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchDatasources": ["azure-pipelines-tasks"],
      "extractVersion": "^(?<version>\\d+)"
    }
  ]
}

Renovate now updates container and repository resources from the resources block, plus tasks from steps blocks.

For example:

resources:
  repositories:
    - type: github
      name: renovate/renovate
      ref: refs/heads/main
    - type: github
      name: user/repo
      ref: refs/tags/v0.5.1
  containers:
    - container: linux
      image: ubuntu:24.04
    - container: python
      image: python:3.14@sha256:b0aed0e0059e9b1527ef57689a7206f32526627b0713e2228a916df62880188a

stages:
  - stage: StageOne
    jobs:
      - job: JobOne
        steps:
          - task: Bash@3
            inputs:
              script: 'echo Hello World'

Read the resources block and the tasks block Azure Pipelines documentation for more information.

The azure-pipelines manager can process these files:

• .azure-pipelines/**/*.yaml
• .azure-pipelines.yaml
• .azure-pipelines.yml
• azure-pipelines/**/*.yaml
• azure-pipelines.yaml
• azure-pipelines.yml
• azure-pipeline/**/*.yaml
• azure-pipeline.yaml
• azure-pipeline.yml

!!! warning Renovate can't update (root) container-element in containers jobs, see issue #21987. Renovate can't read Azure repositories defined in resource blocks, see issue #15028.