Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry - Using a Service Principal

Adding Azure Container Registry (ACR) service connection to Azure DevOps  is really simple as described in "Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry", when you have the same account you are using for Azure DevOps, is associated with your Azure Subscription. However, this may not be the case always and you may want to push docker images to ACR in an Azure Subscription which is not related to your Azure DevOps organization, such as your customer's production Azure subscription. We have discussed one option with basic authentication in the post "Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry - Using Basic Authentication". Let’s see how to create a service connection for ACR in such situation to utilize it in a deployment pipeline using a Service Principal in this post.

Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry - Using Basic Authentication

Adding Azure Container Registry (ACR) service connection to Azure DevOps  is really simple as described in "Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry", when you have the same account you are using for Azure DevOps, is associated with your Azure Subscription. However, this may not be the case always and you may want to push docker images to ACR in an Azure Subscription which is not related to your Azure DevOps organization, such as your customer's production Azure subscription. Let’s see how to create a service connection for ACR in such situation to utilize it in a deployment pipeline using basic authentication.

Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry

 To push docker contianer images from Azure Pipelines to Azure Container Registry (ACR) you need to establish a connection between the Azure DevOps Team Project and the Azure Continer Registry in the Azure Subscription. General service principal based Azure Resource Manager Service Connection cannot be used to push docker images to Azure Contianer Registry. We need to instead create a service connection of type docker registry in Azure DevOps. Let's look at few simple steps to get such service connction created.

It is simple to setup this service connection if your Azure subscription and the Azure DevOps belong to the same account as described in this post. If you have your Azure subscription account as a different account form your Azure DevOps account refer one of below options to create the service connectiont to ACR. 

• Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry - Using Basic Authentication
• Create Service Connection in Azure DevOps for Azure Container Registry - Using a Service Principal