Azure DevOps. Reference Pipeline Settings in PowerShell - azure-devops

Question

I'd like to reference a user who ran pipeline and indicate that a previous specific task in multi-stage pipeline ran successfully or not in a PowerShell script. How can I do that?
Something like:
Write-Host $env:UserThatRanPipeline $env:Task:BuildApp1:SuccessOrFail
So I'd get output:
John Smith Success

Answer 1

I'd like to reference a user who ran pipeline and indicate that a
previous specific task in multi-stage pipeline ran successfully or not
in a PowerShell script.
1.Just as Shayki Abramczyk suggests above, you can use Build.RequestedFor to output the user who runs the pipeline. See predefined variables, you can use something like: Write-Host $(Build.RequestedFor)
2.To get status of your AzureRmWebAppDeployment#4 task, for now there's no predefined variable available to do that job. So you have to do that with some logic...
As a workaround:
You can set one variable SuccessOrFail: 'Succeed' like this in yml:
variables:
solution: '**/*.sln'
buildPlatform: 'Any CPU'
buildConfiguration: 'Release'
SuccessOrFail: 'Succeed'
And then add one powershell task right after your AzureRmWebAppDeployment#4 task:
- task: PowerShell#2
condition: failed()
inputs:
targetType: 'inline'
script: |
# This script will run only when any previous task failed
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=SuccessOrFail]Fail"
3.Make sure there's no custom condition set for your AzureRmWebAppDeployment#4 task. As I know this task is not a independent task, so it will run when all previous tasks succeed.
To sum up:
This ps script will run when AzureRmWebAppDeployment#4 task failed or skipped, and it will reset the value of SuccessOrFail to Fail. So if your AzureRmWebAppDeployment#4 succeeds, the value of $(SuccessOrFail) is Succeed, if it fails or skips, the value would be Fail.
Now the value Succeed represents the task should certainly succeed, and if the value is Fail, it actually represents your task is NotSucceed(Fail+Skip).
The order of your tasks should be: other tasks =>AzureRmWebAppDeployment#4=> PS task above=> other tasks => Your own Powershell Task.