A task for documenting your Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions for YAML usage

I have posted in the past a quick script to generate some markdown documentation for the YAML usage of Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions. Well I decided that having this script as a task itself would be a good idea, so a wrote it, and please to say have just release it to the marketplace

The YAML Documenter task scans an extension’s vss-extension.json and task.json files to find the details it needs to build the markdown documentation on the YAML usage. It can also, optionally, copy the extension’s readme.md as the extensions primary documentation.

I am starting to use this extension, with my WIKIUpdater extension, in my release pipelines to make sure my extension’s GitHub WIki is up to date.

It is going to take a bit of work to update all my pipelines, but the eventual plan is to use the YAML document generator in the builds, adding the readme and YAML markdown files to the build as artefacts. Then deploying these files to the wiki in a later stage of the pipeline.

Hope some of you find it of use.