Create an Azure DevOps release definition from file.

create_azure_devops_release_definition.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Usage
# ./create_azure_devops_release_definition.sh "YOUR_ORG" "YOUR_PROJECT"

Organization=$1
Project=$2

azureDevOpsTokenUri="https://vssps.dev.azure.com/$Organization"
azureDevOpsReleaseUri="https://vsrm.dev.azure.com/$Organization"

username=$(az ad signed-in-user show --query "displayName")
echo "Retrieving Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (PAT) for '$username'"
read authId pat < <( echo $(az rest --method post \
    --uri "$azureDevOpsTokenUri/_apis/Tokens/Pats?api-version=6.1-preview" \
    --headers Content-Type=application/json \
    --resource "https://management.core.windows.net/" \
    --body '{ "displayName": "Release Definition Management", "scope": "vso.release_manage" }' \
    -o tsv \
    --query [patToken.authorizationId,patToken.token] 
))


echo "Creating release definition with $release_definition_json_path"
curl -u $username:$pat -X POST "$azureDevOpsReleaseUri/$Project/_apis/release/definitions?api-version=6.0" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -d @"$release_definition_json_path"


echo "Removing path with authorizationid=$authId"
az rest --method delete \
    --resource "https://management.core.windows.net/" \
    --uri "$azureDevOpsTokenUri/_apis/tokens/pats?authorizationId=$authId&api-version=7.1-preview.1"