We are using azure devops pipeline to build our application including a Azure build agent. At the end of this process, I would like to publish the artifacts to an on-premise server shared directory (which will connect to company mandated deployment process (repliweb)).
Is that possible?
Looking at the documentation it looks like I can use publish artifact or copy file step (or maybe even ftp).
Our IT organization needs to know the IP/port so that the firewall rules can be authored.
Where can I get that information?
I suppose the other possibility would be have our server pull the artifact from Azure devops.
Publishing artifacts to an external server
For this issue, you can try to use FTP Upload task in the pipeline. Using this task in a build or release pipeline to upload files to a remote machine using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), or securely with FTPS.
For details,please refer to this document.
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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 saw several pages on Internet but none that explains how to do this.
I have Azure Pipelines, a Windows self-hosted agent and an intranet TFS 2018 Server.
I tried to create a “New Azure Repos/Team Foundation Server” service connection with a full access PAT and got this message: “Failed to query service connection API: 'https: //tfs…/defaultcollection/project/_admin/_services/_apis/projects'. Error Message: 'A task was canceled.'” However, I am not even sure this is what I need.
I want a build pipeline to trigger when developers checks-in in VS2019 for a project in TFS. This pipeline would get the code on the agent, build and create an artifact on Azure Artifacts. A release pipeline would take that artifact and deploy on our intranet servers.
Is that possible?
If yes, could you help me find what must be done in Devops and on the TFS servers?
If not, could you please tell me the best way to do the above?
Many thanks
When you create a "New Azure Repos/Team Foundation Server" service connection, you can try to choose Save without verification.
If you want to check in in VS2019 to trigger a build pipeline, then you need to find the Triggers tab in the build pipeline interface, and then enable continuous integration, add Branch filters.
You can install extension TFS artifacts for Release Management in your organization. With this extension, you can deploy artifacts from external TFS. When you add an artifact, select External TFS build, and then add the required information, you can deploy the artifact to your Internal service
You can get the projectId by calling the REST API below:
REST API : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/core/projects/list?view=vsts-rest-tfs-4.1
Extension TFS artifacts for Release Management: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscs-rm.vss-services-externaltfs
I tried to copy task extension on azure pipeline: $vmFolder="c:/users/[username]/desktop and also tried
$vmFolder="c:/users/public/desktop but still my artefacts are deployed inside c:/azagent/work/ location. If anyone has an idea, please explain me the process step by step.
Could you provide a little more detail about what you're trying to achieve?
My feeling is that there may be a confussion about what is an Agent (C:\azagent\work is the work directory in a machine where you, very likely, have installed an Agent) and the Machine where you want to deploy your code to run.
Bests.
When you publish the build artifacts in Azure DevOps, for the location you could only choose "Server" or a UNC file share.
Artifact publish location argument:
Azure Pipelines/TFS (TFS 2018 RTM and older: Artifact type: Server)
is the best and simplest choice in most cases. This choice causes the
artifacts to be stored in Azure Pipelines or TFS. But if you're
using a private Windows agent, you've got the option to drop to a
UNC file share.
More details please refer our official doc -- Artifacts in Azure Pipelines
The remaining alternative is to add a download artifacts task in the end of pipeline to download your published artifacts to your Destination directory.
Originally posted on GitHub.
We are using .NET client libraries for Azure DevOps Services (and TFS) in some custom tools. BuildHttpClient.GetArtifactContentZipAsync does not work for the new pipeline artifacts. Which HttpClient do I use to download this type of artifacts?
Pipeline artifacts in .NET client libraries for Azure DevOps Services (and TFS)
I am afraid there is no such .NET client libraries for Pipeline artifacts.
As we could to know, the Pipeline artifacts:
Pipeline artifacts provide a way to share files between stages in a
pipeline or between different pipelines.
When we share the files between stages in a pipeline, it just like a "copy" inside in the pipeline, it is more like a copy instruction of windows. So, this operation does not have the client's libraries to implement it.
You could implicitly get related information from the document Keep in mind:
If you plan to consume the artifact from a job running on a different operating system or file system, you must ensure all file paths in the artifact are valid for the target environment. For example, a file name containing a \ or * character will typically
fail to download on Windows.
On the other hand, I have checked the source code for this azure-pipelines-tasks, there is also no source code to implement it here.
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to figure out how can I connect my Jenkins Build server to the Azure DevOps Pull Request. My Jenkins Server is behind a corporate firewall, I don't have any way to have access to this server outside of the corporate network.
Due to the corporate network rules I cannot add a hook in Azure to call my Jenkins server, but my server can have access to the Microsoft Azure web site.
I tried to run the VSTS Agent with success on my Linux Jenkins server. It works, but It doesn't do what I would need to do. I don't want to change all my build process to build my application inside this Agent. I really want to be able to launch a Jenkins Pipeline build from my server and forward the build result to the Azure DevOps.
I cannot use the Jenkins VM provided by Azure DevOps, because my Jenkins build process has to run some regression test tool on real hardware unit in our lab to flag the build as a success.
So in other word:
1- I cannot use the VSTS agent because I need to use my Jenkins Build Server
2- I cannot use the Jenkins VM provided by Azure DevOps because I need to have access to real Hardware Unite
3- I think I cannot instrument my Jenkins to see if we have a new Pull Request branch, because I will not be able to send the Jenkins build result to the Microsoft Azure DeveOps server.
Anybody had to do something like that?
Any reading to suggest?
Thanks!
Since one-way communication is going to be possible (from Jenkins to Azure DevOps), you'll have to do the following:
Set up your Jenkins pipeline to periodically poll Azure DevOps for new PR branches and build PRs
Set up a branch policy for approval from external services
Have Jenkins post the build status back to the external service API so that Azure DevOps knows whether the build has succeeded or failed