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Share packages publicly with public feeds

Azure DevOps Services

Azure Artifacts provides an easy way to share packages with users outside your organization, including external customers, by using public feeds. Packages stored in public feeds can be accessed and installed by anyone on the internet without requiring an Azure DevOps account.

Important

Public feeds depend on public projects. Starting in 2027, existing public projects will automatically convert to private. When that happens, public feeds are no longer publicly accessible because they inherit the visibility of the hosting project. If you still need to distribute packages publicly after that conversion, plan a migration before 2027. For more information, see Public projects retirement.

Prerequisites

Product Requirements
Azure DevOps - An Azure DevOps organization.
- An Azure DevOps project.

Note

Public feeds are only available in Azure DevOps Services.

Create a public feed

Important

Only organizations with the Allow public project policy already enabled can create projects or change the visibility of a project to public. The policy is no longer available to organizations that aren't using it already. Microsoft recommends using GitHub for all your public project needs.

Public feeds are project-scoped feeds in an existing public project. Public feeds inherit the visibility settings of the hosting project.

  1. Sign in to your Azure DevOps organization, and then go to your existing public project.

  2. Select Artifacts, and then select Create Feed.

  3. Enter a Name for your feed, select Project: PublicProject (Recommended) for its scope, and then select Create.

    A screenshot displaying how to create a new public feed.

Share packages

To share your packages publicly, you can simply share your feed URL, for example: https://dev.azure.com/<ORGANIZATION_NAME>/<PROJECT-NAME>/_artifacts/feed/<FEED_NAME> or share individual packages using package badges. Anyone can access and download packages from your public feed without requiring an Azure DevOps account while the hosting project remains public. Starting in 2027, existing public projects will automatically convert to private, and public feeds will no longer be publicly accessible.

A screenshot displaying a package in a public feed.

Note

You must be a Feed Administrator to enable package badges. See Manage permissions for more details.

Publish packages (CLI)

Package Type Articles
NuGet - Publish NuGet packages - (NuGet.exe)
- Publish NuGet packages - (dotnet)
Npm - Publish npm packages
Maven - Publish Maven Artifacts
Gradle - Publish Artifacts using Gradle
Python - Publish Python packages
Cargo - Publish Cargo packages
Universal Packages - Publish Universal Packages

Publish packages with Azure Pipelines

Package Type Articles
NuGet - Publish NuGet packages
Npm - Publish npm packages
Maven - Publish Maven Artifacts
Gradle - Publish Artifacts with Gradle
Python - Publish Python packages
Cargo - Publish Cargo packages (YAML/Classic)
Universal Packages - Publish Universal Packages

Note

If your organization is using a firewall or a proxy server, make sure you allow Azure Artifacts Domain URLs and IP addresses.