Trigger Blue/Green deployment Pipelines with Flic button
My goal here is to trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline with a single click. Triggering a pipeline can be done via Azure DevOps rest API and through PowerShell.
In some situations, it can be useful to share the knowledge of what technology can do, especially at your work environment. I found these cute buttons while watching the twitch sessions with azure functions and Twilio. Flic is already an excellent integration with GitHub, Philips Hue and many more but I don't see integration with Azure DevOps and Pipelines.
My goal here is to trigger an Azure DevOps pipeline with a single click. Triggering a pipeline can be done via Azure DevOps rest API and through Powershell.
With this task you can trigger a build or release pipeline using flic button (1 click to start green deployment , double-click to start blue database)
Of course, to do that we need to have:
A physical Flic Smart Button
After you download the Flic mobile app, to configure the Flic Button you need to:
Make sure that your mobile has Bluetooth activated.
Open the Flic mobile app from your mobile phone, sign in with your credentials using Facebook, or by creating your Flic Account.
Once you login in the app, on the phone tab, click “Add Flic to Phone” at the bottom of the screen.
Once the “Searching for Flics” screen appears, take or physical button an click it once to pair it with the mobile application
Once the “Pairing complete!” screen appears, your button will be successfully paired with your phone. Click “Finish” to complete.
And a button will be added to the “Phone” tab
Now that the physical button is pair with our mobile phone, we need to configure the Flic’s events that the button will be triggering. For each button we can specify 3 types of events:
click (one quick press)
double-click (two quick presses)
hold (one long press)
To accomplish that you need to:
Press the “My Flic” button present in the “Phone” tab
This will open the button configuration screen, there you should
Change the button name
And then configure one or all the 3 trigger events
In our case, we will configure the “Click” trigger event to be able to trigger a Microsoft Flow. For that, we need to click on the “Click” option
On the “Click” trigger event list screen, select “Advanced” category option.
And on the “Advanced” category list screen, select “Microsoft Flow” option.
On the Flow screen you may or may not select to include GPS location and then you need to click “SAVE ” button.
And our button will now be properly configured to trigger a Microsoft Flow once someone click (one time) the physical button
Now the only thing that is missing is for us to create a Flow that will be associated with this trigger event to fire up a Flow process.
Sign into Microsoft Flow
You can create one flow from scratch
or by typing “flic” into the search box and select one of the several templates provided by Flow team.
Click “My flows” option on the menu and then click “+ Automated from blank” to create a Flow from scratch.
On the “Build an automated flow”, Add the flowname "flicdemo" ,type "flic" in the flow's trigger text and select "When a Flic is pressed"box and click "create".
On the Flic Trigger configuration
On “the Flic button” combo box, select the button we add create on the Mobile App earlier
And on the “Events” combo box, select “click” event that was the only one that we have configured
(of course, the first time you use this trigger, it will ask for permissions and you need to provide the authentication to your Flic account)
Add the next step by clicking “+New step” button and then choose the “Add an action” option
On the “Choose an action” window, enter “devops” and select the trigger “create release”.
on the create a new release, you need to specify
The project name of the Azure Devops on the "Account name"
The projectname is "flicdemo"
And the release definationid is set to your blue deployment.
Be sure you save it.
Now… PRESS THE BUTTON! PRESS THE BUTTON!
The Flow was successfully triggered once I press the button.
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