Azure Pipeline Release Artefact linked ARM templates - azure-devops

Question

We have our ARM templates in a build folder alongside our code. In our pipeline we publish our build folder as an artefact. We have master templates.
We want to run our ARM templates from a Release Pipeline, however our master templates can't find our linked templates, we get the following errors:
##[error]InvalidTemplateSpec: The relative path 'arm-kv/1.0.0.0/azuredeploy.json' could not be resolved. Please ensure the parent deployment references either an external URI or a template spec ID. The relativePath property cannot be used when creating a template deployment with a local file.
The folder structure of the created artefact is as follows;
Builds/
+-- ARM/
+-- parameters/
| +-- azuredeploy-rg-parameters.json ## parameters file
|
+-- arm-kv
| +-- 1.0.0.0/
| +-- azuredeploy.json ##(linked key vault template)
|
|- arm-storage
| +-- 1.0.0.0/
| +-- azuredeploy.json ##(linked storage template)
|
+-- azuredeploy-rg.json ##(main template)
What is the correct syntax for referencing the subfolder/templates? We've tried
arm-kv/1.0.0.0/azuredeploy.json (relative path)
./arm-kv/1.0.0.0/azuredeploy.json
/builds/arm/arm-kv/1.0.0.0/azuredeploy.json (the full artefact path)

Answer 1

When you run the task you are probably in the $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory) context. This is the folder where artifacts are downloaded. Please check what you have exacelty there by adding a step and listing files.
Once you have it change your working directory for your ARM deployment step to $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/builds/arm (it could be slightly different and this is why former step is needed to verify the path). Once you set it correctly you will get azuredeploy-rg.json in the root and all linked templates will become discoverable.