DevOps Change Velocity integrations

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    Summary of DevOps Change Velocity integrations

    DevOps Change Velocity integrates seamlessly with external DevOps toolchains by utilizing REST endpoints to receive real-time webhook notifications or direct REST calls. It also supports data import through polling. The DevOps API allows for integration with various coding, planning, and orchestration tools.

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    Key Features

    • Supported Tools: Connectors are available by default for commonly used tools like Azure Boards, Jira, GitHub, and Jenkins. If a tool is not listed, manual integration is possible.
    • Integration Types: Supports planning, coding, orchestration, testing, software quality, and security tools.
    • Third-Party Extensions: Extensions for additional applications may be necessary for tools that cannot integrate via native REST APIs.
    • Plugins: A Jenkins plugin and Azure DevOps extension are available to facilitate change acceleration and streamline pipeline executions within ServiceNow DevOps.

    Key Outcomes

    By integrating DevOps Change Velocity with your toolchain, you can enhance collaboration, automate workflows, and improve change management efficiency across your DevOps processes. This integration allows for real-time updates and data synchronization, ultimately leading to faster delivery and greater agility in your development cycles.

    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

    The DevOps Change Velocity application provides connectors by default to connect the following commonly used DevOps tools to import data. If your tool isn’t included in this list, you can manually connect and configure an integration. See User-created integrations in DevOps Change Velocity.
    Tool type Tools and the supported version
    Planning
    • Azure Boards (Azure DevOps latest cloud version)
    • Azure DevOps Server (ver 2022.0.1)
    • Jira Server and Jira Cloud (latest cloud version)
    • ServiceNow Agile Development 2.0
    • GitHub (latest cloud version)
    • GitHub Enterprise (ver 3.7)
      • Basic authentication
      • OAuth
    • Rally (latest cloud version)
    Coding
    • Azure Repos (Azure DevOps latest cloud version)
    • Azure DevOps Server (ver 2022.0.1)
    • Bitbucket (ver 7.19.2 on-premises)
    • GitHub (latest cloud version)
    • GitHub Enterprise (ver 3.7)
      • Basic authentication
      • OAuth
    • GitLab (ver 13.0.6 for on-premises or latest cloud version)
    Orchestration
    • Azure Pipelines (Azure DevOps latest cloud version)
      Jobs supported:
      • Agent job
      • Agentless (server) job
    • Azure DevOps Server (ver 2022.0.1)
    • Jenkins (ver 2.289.1)
      Jobs supported:
      • Freestyle project
      • Folder (default is 3 levels)
      • Pipeline
      • Multibranch Pipeline
    • GitLab (ver 13.0.6 for on-premises or latest cloud version)
    • GitHub (latest cloud version)
    • GitHub Enterprise (ver 3.7)
      • Basic authentication
      • OAuth
    • Argo CD (latest cloud version)
    Repository artifacts
    • JFrog (ver 7 for on-premises or latest cloud version)
    • Azure Artifacts (Azure DevOps latest cloud version)
    • Azure DevOps Server (ver 2022.0.1)
    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
    • GitHub (latest cloud version)
    • GitHub Enterprise (ver 3.7)
      • Basic authentication
      • OAuth
    • GitLab (ver 13.0.6 for on-premises or latest cloud version)
    • Azure DevOps (latest cloud version)
    • Azure DevOps Server (ver 2022.0.1)
    • Jenkins (ver 2.289.1)
    Software Quality SonarQube (ver 8.9.6 or latest cloud version) scans supported on
    • Azure DevOps pipelines (latest cloud version)
    • Azure DevOps Server (ver 2022.0.1)
    • Jenkins (ver 2.289.1) pipelines
    Feature Flag Split (latest cloud version)
    Security
    • Veracode (latest cloud version)
    • Checkmarx One (ver 1.0.17)
    • Checkmarx SAST (ver 1.0.16)

    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.