DevOps Change Velocity integrations
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Summary of DevOps Change Velocity integrations
DevOps Change Velocity integrates with external DevOps toolchains by exposing REST endpoints for real-time webhook notifications or direct REST calls. It also supports data import through polling. The platform’s API allows integration with any coding, planning, or orchestration tools, enabling comprehensive visibility and control over your DevOps processes.
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Supported Tools
The application provides default connectors for a wide range of commonly used DevOps tools across various categories:
- Planning Tools: Azure Boards (latest cloud and Azure DevOps Server 2022.0.1), Jira Server and Cloud, ServiceNow Agile Development 2.0, GitHub (cloud and Enterprise 3.7), Rally.
- Coding Tools: Azure Repos, Bitbucket (on-premises 7.19.2 and cloud), GitHub (cloud and Enterprise), GitLab (on-premises 13.0.6 and cloud).
- Orchestration Tools: Azure Pipelines, Jenkins (ver 2.289.1), GitLab, GitHub, Argo CD, JFrog, Azure Artifacts, and Azure DevOps Server.
- Testing: Integration with test executions from GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins pipelines, showing test summaries within the platform.
- Software Quality: SonarQube scans on Azure DevOps and Jenkins pipelines.
- Feature Flag: Split (latest cloud version).
- Security: Veracode, Checkmarx One, and Checkmarx SAST.
If a tool is not listed, manual integration and configuration are possible through user-created integrations.
Third-Party Extensions and Plugins
ServiceNow offers extensions to enhance integration capabilities where native REST APIs are insufficient:
- Jenkins Plugin: Allows Jenkins orchestration to communicate with and control pipeline executions from ServiceNow DevOps. This plugin is available via the Jenkins Marketplace.
- ServiceNow DevOps Extension for Azure DevOps: Available on the Visual Studio Marketplace, facilitating Azure DevOps pipeline integration.
- ServiceNow DevOps Custom Actions for GitHub Actions: Available on GitHub Marketplace to integrate GitHub workflows effectively.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Achieve seamless integration of your existing DevOps tools with ServiceNow DevOps Change Velocity to gain real-time insights and control over your delivery pipelines.
- Utilize pre-built connectors to quickly connect popular tools, reducing setup time and complexity.
- Leverage extensions and plugins to extend integration where native capabilities fall short, ensuring comprehensive pipeline orchestration and monitoring.
- Obtain consolidated visibility into planning, coding, orchestration, testing, software quality, feature flags, and security within the ServiceNow platform.
For detailed integration steps and advanced configurations, customers should refer to the documentation on integrating DevOps Change Velocity with third-party tools.
Get an overview of how DevOps Change Velocity integrates with your external DevOps toolchain and the tools supported for this integration.
The DevOps Change Velocity integration with external tools is achieved by exposing REST endpoints to receive webhook notifications or direct REST calls from these tools in real-time. Additionally, DevOps Change Velocity enables importing of data from these tools using polling. DevOps API enables integration with any coding, planning, or orchestration tools. For more information, see DevOps API.
Supported tools
| Tool type | Tools and the supported version |
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| Coding |
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| Repository artifacts |
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| Testing | If any test is run as part of the pipeline executions of the following supported Orchestration pipelines, the information is shown in the test summary
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| Software Quality | SonarQube (ver 8.9.6 or latest cloud version) scans supported on
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| Feature Flag | Split (latest cloud version) |
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Third-party extensions
Use the ServiceNow extensions to model your pipeline in DevOps and configure branch analysis for tools like SonarQube.
Additional extensions may be required for applications such as Jenkins or Azure DevOps. These extensions are used when ServiceNow DevOps can’t integrate using only the native REST API and push notifications.
- Jenkins plugin for ServiceNow DevOps
A Jenkins plugin is provided to enable change acceleration so your orchestration tool can communicate and control certain aspects of pipeline executions from within ServiceNow DevOps.
Install the plugin from the Jenkins Marketplace. Navigate to Manage Jenkins > System configuration > Plugins in your Jenkins instance. Search for ServiceNow DevOps Plugin and select it, and then select Install.
- ServiceNow DevOps for Azure DevOps
Use the ServiceNow DevOps extension on Visual Studio Marketplace if you plan to integrate your Azure DevOps pipeline with ServiceNow DevOps.
For more information, see Use the ServiceNow DevOps extension for Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps custom actions.
- ServiceNow DevOps custom actions for GitHub Actions
Use the ServiceNow DevOps custom actions on GitHub marketplace if you plan to integrate your GitHub workflows with ServiceNow DevOps.
For more information, see GitHub Actions configurations.
To start integrating DevOps Change Velocity with your toolchain, see Integrating DevOps Change Velocity with third party tools.