We have a .NET Core Console App which we publish to an On Prem VM using publish feature in Visual Studio. Here is how we configure publishing to a file system.
Target location in the image is actually the folder structure of where we want our app to reside on the VM.
How can we configure the same in DevOps. I can't seem to find any good resource on this.
I have created a CI build pipeline.
You can follow below steps to deploy Console App to the On Prem VM.
1, Create a deployment agent on On-Prem VM. create a deployment group from azure devops portal. Follow the first part of this tutorial to create deployment group. Check the official document for more information about deployment group.
2, Create a release pipeline. See document here.
Setup the artifacts(you should have the publish build artifacts task in the CI build pipeline to publish the console app build artifacts to azure devops server.), and add stage for the release pipeline.
Add a deployment group job in the release stage.
see below screenshot to select the deployment group created in the first step, which contains the deployment agent on the ON-premise VM,
Add copy file task to copy the console app build artifacts to the folder on the ON-premise VM
Another workaround is to use self-hosted agent(steps are similar to above using deployment group). Check the detailed steps in this example.
Hope above helps!
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I'm just trying to get my fist Release pipeline underway.
Our current infastrucure setup is that we have a number of On Prem VM's which I have deployed the Azure Agents as per the deployment group setup.
The issue I have at the moment is that the deployment first tries to download the artifact from our build server using a file share.
However, currently the deployment machine cant see the file share. I gather I am supposed to be able to see the file share. I'm not entirely sure how to share this folder on the build machine?
Am I supposed to just create a share for everyone to see? Or is there a particluar user/role that I am having to share it for?
Our current infastrucure setup is that we have a number of On Prem VM's which I have deployed the Azure Agents as per the deployment group setup.
You need to check which user is used to run the tasks on the agent. You can add a powershell task with inline script: whoami.
You need to make sure the account have access to the file share.
In addition, when you publish artifact, you can select file share to store the artifact and then you can consume the artifact in the release pipeline. Please check the link for the details.
My "Download artifacts from file share" in release pipeline screenshot:
I am trying to create ClickOnce deployment on Azure DevOps release pipeline
I create signature, manifest, application, deploy files with certificate
But how can I create the exe and setup file (via Azure DevOps release pipeline)
But how can I create the exe and setup file (via Azure DevOps release
pipeline)
Check document Build ClickOnce applications from the command line: Msbuild has Publish target to build and publish the ClickOnce application. It will generate the setup.exe you want. See similar hint here.
And all above is about doing that in local machine, to do similar job in release pipeline you can use msbuild task or Visual Studio Task with Publish target(/t:Publish as argument).
Then you'll get one app.publish folder where the files you want exist there:
This folder can be used for your further deployment.
In addition:
If you meet error like Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store, please check the suggestions in this issue.
I am using azure devops for CI/CD of a .net core application
I am doing a nuget restore/build solution test etc followed by "Publish Artifact like below". All fairly standard
I want to deploy this the AWS elastic beanstalk, and have the following task setup in Azure Devops..
I have tried a number of things but not sure how to get the .net core application deployed to aws beanstalk... The problem i believe is with the location of zip file. what should this be? - Is there anything else needed to be done? It just errors trying to created deployment bundle in the "Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk" task (btw aws connection etc is working fine)
Azure devops deploy .net core to AWS elastic beanstalk
It depends on the output of the previous dotnet publish.
You could get the info from the Deployment Bundle Type:
ASP.NET Core (Source: dotnet publish)
As you can see the source is from dotnet publish task.
Then, the output location of the next option Published Application Path should be based on previous build steps placed the deployment artifacts. It should be the path and filename of the .zip file containing the artifacts.
You can check the details info from the document:
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deploy Application Task
Hope this helps.
Here is a full tutorial on how to do Elastic Beanstalk deployment using Azure DevOps
You can also use this PowerShell script to automate the end to end deployment instead of using Azure DevOps plugins. It gives your more flexibility on what you can do with your deployments
I'm building an Azure DevOps pipeline to deploy a custom-build powershell application to several on-prem environments that we support. I configured the required agent pools and installed them as a service on the on-prem environment.
Next, I have set up my pipeline in Azure DevOps, selecting a GitRepo:
Build (with the steps: Use Nuget, Nuget Restore, Build solution, Update version, Copy Files, and Publish build Artifact)
Release (with step: Publish Build Artifact)
Some things are unclear for me:
Do I need the Publish Build Artifacts twice? Can the Build pipeline
end with Copy Files step, and that the Release pipeline picks up this
artifact?
It is my understanding that the release publishes the app to the
on-prem environment (in my case). Where can I set a custom path (ie:
C:\deployed_apps) where the app needs to be deployed? When I tested
this pipeline, I got errors that the path I created using an variable
was not found.
What am I missing in my setup to get this pipeline working?
As #Shayki Abramczyk
pointed out this task is not for deployment, it just upload your Build Artifacts to azure devops server where your release pipeline can download directly.
In your case, if you want deploy your application to several on-prem environments, You need to create a deployment group first, A deployment group is a logical set of deployment target machines that have agents installed on each one. You application will be deployed to those machines in a deployment group in release pipeline. Check here for more details about deployment group.
After the deployment group is created, you can add a deployment group job by click the 3 dots, and then specify your deployment group as below pic shows, You can then simply add a copy file task or other deployment tasks to deploy your application to your on-prem machine.
In the release pipeline you shouldn't use the Publish Build Artifact. in the end of the build you put this step, what this step does? upload your artifacts to the Azure DevOps or to a file share. now in the release pipeline you choose the build artifact (in the left pane). the first thing that the agent does when the release pipeline started is to download the build artifacts to the agent. now you need to take them and deploy it to your environments. how? it depends which kind of application is (it can be just copy files, it can be deploy to IIS, etc.).
You can put the path in the variables tab and use this variable when you deploy the app (with copy files task, for example).
I have my code in the azure repos.I have created the release pipeline which runs the task "npm install" and "npm run start".This will deploy my application.But I want to deploy this application to my ubuntu server 206.189.22.155 from the azure release pipeline.Is there any way I can configure the release pipeline to use my ubuntu server?
The only agent pool available for me is "Azure Pipelines" and for agent specification I used "ubuntu-16.04".Iam totally confused about how this works.
I just want my application to run on http://206.189.22.155:5000. I can run the application directly in the server, but the whole point is to run it from the release pipeline.So how do I connect the pipeline to my ubuntu server?I think my default azure uses some kind of virtual machine for deployment.
You can create a deployment group in Azure DevOps. Deployment groups in Azure pipelines make it easier to organize the servers you want to use to host your app. In Azure pipelines -> Devployment group, select “+New” button and type of target to register. Copy and run the Registration script in your Ubuntu server.
You can refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/apps/cd/deploy-linuxvm-deploygroups?view=azure-devops&tabs=java-script#define-your-ci-build-pipeline and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/deployment-groups/index?view=azure-devops for more detailed information
After you create the deployment group, you can choose it in your release pipeline
And after you configure you deployment group, you can deploy your app to the specific server.