The new TFS Build does not seem to have an option to target the Build to a local build controller, is this correct?
I can only see "Hosted" or "Default" in the General tab.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/Build/overview
Create a new pool
Create a new queue
Download and configure the agent
More details can be found on Deploy an agent to build Windows and Azure apps
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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!
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.
I have created a custom build agent in Azure DevOps. I can view the agent in agent pool, but there is no option to select the agent when queuing the build.
I want to run the build using that custom build agent. So please guide me on how to configure the build pipeline to run with custom build agent.
When you create a self-hosted (I assume you mean this by custom, right?) agent it goes to the Default pool.
So you need to select this pool when you run a build. You can either set this pool as a default for the build in the build configuration OR you can select it right before you start the build instead of the default one.
I am working for a WPF application, and recently I have migrated TFS to Azure DevOps and I am successfully able to create build artifacts as well, unfortunately, I could not create executable from the artifacts as Azure DevOps does not support InstallShield Package creation with it, now I decided to move the build artifacts to my local build server,again my company law doesn't allow to access my server from outside network, what should do to create executable.
The Build Agent needs to be able to connect to Azure DevOps. It's enough for it to be able to make an outgoing connection over https (443). The agent can be configured to connect through a web proxy server.
What alternatives do you have:
Use the hosted agent and install InstallShield as part of the build process. This will be slow, but it is doable. You'll need to execute this step as part of every build that tries to create the InstallShield package and requires you to do a head-less installation of InstallShield (given that they are the kings of Installers, I suppose this is doable).
Use a private agent in Azure. You can spin up any IaaS server on Azure, install Visual Studio, InstallShield and the Azure DevOps Agent on it and use it as a build server. There is a set of standard images file available which you can use as a basis.
I am getting my first VSTS build and release definitions setup.
Test server destination, on prem
project is using VS 2017 professional
Earlier I setup a private agent for doing the build, following this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/actions/agents/v2-windows?view=vsts
The agent installed fine and I can see it from build & release / agent pools
However, have now switched to using a hosted agent for that so I can remove the need to install visual studio on a test server.
Now I want to deploy the build to my test server, which is on premises. Do I need yet another agent or can I use the one I setup already. In other words are build agents separate from release agents? The agent I setup earlier is running as a service.
The build agent can be used in VSTS build and release, also the deployment group agent is configuring with build agent too.
You don’t need to setup another build/release agent, there are many tasks to deploy app to another server, such as IIS Web App Deployment Using WinRM, PowerShell on Target machine, Windows Machine File Copy.
The build and release agents are the same, but you have to install an on-premise agent to deploy your projects in your network. Is not that you can not use the hosted agent, but you would have to use WinRM and open you network, which may not be a good idea.
After you installed your on-premise agent, you don't have to install VS on the machine to run tests. You can add the following task to your release.