How to use azure pipleline for creating nugetpackes and deploying to orchestrator?
The generation of the package is running with the following package: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=uipath.vsts-uipath-package
In the case this is the right way what's the solution to upload them to orchestrator?
Possibility 1: Create nuget feed in azure (one feed for TEST and one
for PROD)
Possibility 2: Deploy packages to orchestrator directly
Though I am not one of the developer for UiPath, as I know, this extension hasn't integrated with our Azure Devops feed. So, your first possibility solution should not suitable in VSTS.
To achieve what you want, I suggest you pack and deploy the packages by using the UiPath Package task directly.
Create the package in build pipeline:
Create a build pipeline, add and configure the UiPath Package task by following the description here. For create the package, please choose Pack as Package action value:
Note: Please keep the default value of Output folder as $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory). It is the path which used to store the artifact, then got by the release pipeline.
Deploy the package to orchestrator in Release pipeline:
Create a Release pipeline, choose the build you executed previously as the source.
Add the same task into the stage, but here please choose Deploy as Package action value:
Then configure your Orchestrator info and the identity Authentication details.
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We have a ClickOnce application we try to deploy with Azure DevOps pipelines.
We have figured the deployment process out with creating manifests and signing them.
The problem is now we want to also use the prerequisits option of ClickOnce with some custom packages.
After reading the docs we created a custom bootstrapper package and it was displayed in Visual Studio. When we publish the app with Visual Studio the custom package is added. But if we use it on the DevOps pipelin it's ignored. This makes sense because the build server doesn't know the custom package.
For example one prerequisit is the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server.
One Idea maybe would be to not use the option "Download prerequisites from the component vendor's web site", but host the exe/msi files ourselves and link to them.
Another option could be this support URL for individual prerequisites but here I don't know how to set this to other applications.
Does somebody have an idea how custom prerequisites with ClickOnce can be added to a Azure DevOps build server/pipeline?
You could try to use Azure cli to upload the package(with its setup.bin file) to Azure DevOps artifact feeds
as universal packages type.
Create a feed first then you could use az artifacts universal publish to upload the packages.
Then you could use the "Universal packages" task in your Azure DevOps pielines to download the packages for using.
As you said, you could use visual studio run with the packages successfully. If you use VSBuild#1 task as the doc recommend in your pipelines to deploy the ClickOnce, you could add the path of the custom package in Azure DevOps, it looks like something like this:
'p:GenerateBootstrapperSdkPath=$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\bootstrapper'
I hope it could help.
In Azure DevOps, can I build a solution using the Visual studio Build task, publish the .exe file to the artifacts (or somewhere else, repo?) and then utilize that .exe file in another pipeline?
If so, to where and how should I publish it and then how do I reference it?
thanks
D.J. recommended possible solution, though I am using different approach with Universal Packages:
Once the binary is produced, the pipeline publishes it as Universal
Package to Artifact Feet
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/artifacts/universal-packages?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml#publish-a-universal-package
Any other pipeline in project or organization can reference the Artifact Feed and utilize
the binary as part of the job
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/artifacts/universal-packages?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml#download-a-universal-package
This solution requires more effort, since you have to create the Artifact Feed, but it is possible to use the published artifacts across projects within the organization. This is ideal when project produces libraries for integration. Other projects can reference the feed and use up-to-date libraries as part of their build.
Artifact feeds support Semantic Versioning. You can find more about Artifact Feeds in Azure DevOps here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/concepts/feeds?view=azure-devops
It only depends on what are your specific requirements.
Yes this is possible. You can use pipeline-artifacts for a start. The artifacts will be associated with the pipline, you'll have a task for publishing at the end of the pipeline that creates the exe-file and downloading at the start of the other pipeline that re-uses that exe.
See this for reference -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/artifacts/pipeline-artifacts?view=azure-devops&tabs=classic
I have found that we can create private Artifact feed in Azure DevOps pipeline by build, Pack and Push task in YAML Pipeline when we have source code.
But now I have access to one third party dll (but not source code) which will be referred by all other .Net solutions.
Can some one help me how can we create Artifact feed only with the dll and with no source code access.
In this scenario, you could create Universal Package instead of Nuget with the dll file.
Both Azure CLI and Azure Pipeline task are supported to publish and download Universal Package.
Azure CLI: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/quickstarts/universal-packages?view=azure-devops
Universal Package task in Azure Pipeline: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/artifacts/universal-packages?toc=%2Fazure%2Fdevops%2Fartifacts%2Ftoc.json&bc=%2Fazure%2Fdevops%2Fartifacts%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json&view=azure-devops&tabs=classic
Choose the dll file as "Path to file(s) to publish"
We have about multiple Projects in a single Solution.
2 projects needs to be deployed as Azure Web App
10 projects are web jobs which needs be deployed to one of the Azure web app
Can someone guide me on how to setup the deployment pipeline for Continuous Integration.
This is one option:
Setup build pipeline so that build will produce ready to install packages. An easy way to achieve this is to use Build solution Task and add following parameters into MSBuild arguments:
/p:TransformConfigFiles=true /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:OutDir="$(build.stagingDirectory)"
(+ of course you need publish symbols path and publish artifact task which are created by default)
Now when you build your solution you should have ready to install packages (zip files).
Next we need to setup deployment pipeline. Here you should use Azure App Service Deploy task. All the other parameters except package or folder should be easy to setup if you have linked Azure subscription into Azure DevOps.In package or folder you can put: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/**/(name of the zip package you want to deploy).zip.
Web jobs don't differ from apps much, so you should be able to setup their pipelines also with above guide.
For more information about web job deployment check this Microsoft example:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tfssetup/2016/05/18/deploying-and-schedule-azure-webjobs-from-vsts-to-azure-web-app-with-bonus-cron-scheduling/
I am trying to automate the generation of the following NuGet package using VSO:
NuGet Package
My problem is that all three "runtimes" libraries are built on different platforms. Hence, I have the following build configuration in VSO:
VSO Build
When build is completed, each agent job publish a native artifact for its platform:
Native Artifacts
My question is: Is it possible to add a 4th agent job to the build that would wait for all the other jobs and then aggregate the artifacts and generate the NuGet package with everything?
Currently, I need to manually download the artifacts and run a script to pack and sign the NuGet package. It's annoying because it require to install a certificate on my local machine and install the signing tools etc.
Thanks!
Your looking for the "Run this Job" setting on the 4th agent job. "Only When all previous jobs are complete" sounds like the value you want. You could then use powershell and/or the NuGet task to automate your process.