{"id":8688,"date":"2022-03-08T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2022-03-11T20:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T01:41:58","slug":"example-azure-devops-file-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8688","title":{"rendered":"Example Azure DevOps File Deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

To automatically update files from your repository on your server, use a release pipeline. For convenience, I use deployment groups<\/em> to ensure all of the servers are updated.<\/p>\n

Creating a deployment group<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the Project, navigate to Pipelines and \u201cdeployment groups\u201d. Click \u201cNew\u201d and provide a name for the deployment group.<\/p>\n

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Now click into the deployment group and select \u201cRegister\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since I have a Linux server, I changed the \u201cType of target to register\u201d drop-down to \u201cLinux\u201d. Copy the command and run it on your server (I don\u2019t run literally<\/em> what MS provides \u2013 I break it out into individual commands so I can make a folder named what I want it to be named and just run the part of the command that registers a service with systemctl.<\/p>\n

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Run the agent \u2013 for demonstration purposes, I am using the run.sh script to launch the agent. This outputs details to my console instead of a log file.<\/p>\n

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If you have multiple servers to which you want to deploy the files, install and run an agent on each one.<\/p>\n

Create the release pipeline<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now we will build the pipeline that actually copies files over to the agent. Under Pipelines, navigate to \u201cReleases\u201d. Select \u201cNew\u201d and create a \u201cNew release pipeline\u201d. Start with an empty job.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll be asked to name the first stage of the deployment pipeline \u2013 here, I\u2019m calling it \u201cDeploy Files to Servers\u201d. Close out of the Stage window to see the pipeline.<\/p>\n

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Click the \u201c+ Add\u201d next to Artifacts to link an artifact to the deployment<\/p>\n

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If you have a build pipeline, you can link that as the artifact. Since I am just copying files, I selected the \u201cAzure Repo\u201d and configured the test project that contains the files I wish to deploy to my servers.<\/p>\n

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Click \u201cAdd\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back in the pipeline, click the \u201c1 job, 0 task\u201d hyperlink to create a file deployment task.<\/p>\n

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We don\u2019t need the \u201cAgent job\u201d, so click on it and click \u201cRemove\u201d<\/p>\n

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Select the hamburger menu next to \u201cDeploy files to servers\u201d and select \u201cAdd a deployment group job\u201d<\/p>\n

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Click the \u201cDeployment group\u201d dropdown and select the deployment group that contains the servers to which you want to deploy files. You can add tags to limit deployment to a subset of the deployment group \u2013 I don\u2019t do this, but I have seen instances where \u201cprod\u201d and \u201cdev\u201d tags were used and all servers in both the prod and dev environment were part of the same deployment group.<\/p>\n

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Click the \u201c+\u201d on the \u201cDeployment group job\u201d item to add a task.<\/p>\n

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Find the \u201cCopy files\u201d task and click \u201cAdd\u201d to create a task to copy files.<\/p>\n

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Click on the \u201cCopy files to:\u201d item to configure the task. The source folder is the Azure repo, and the target folder is the path on the server.<\/p>\n

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Click \u201cSave\u201d to save the task, then click \u201cOK\u201d to save the task.<\/p>\n

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Now create a release \u2013 click the \u201cCreate a release\u201d button<\/p>\n

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ok<\/p>\n

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When the deployment runs, the agent will show the job running.<\/p>\n

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Once the deployment completes, the files are on the server.<\/p>\n

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Scheduling Release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the pipeline, you can click on \u201cSchedule set\u201d to schedule new releases.<\/p>\n

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Enable the schedule, set a time \u2013 I select to only schedule the release if the source or pipeline has changed \u2026 if I\u2019ve not updated files in the repo, there\u2019s no need to redeploy the files. Remember to save your pipeline when you add the schedule.<\/p>\n

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To automatically update files from your repository on your server, use a release pipeline. For convenience, I use deployment groups to ensure all of the servers are updated. Creating a deployment group Under the Project, navigate to Pipelines and \u201cdeployment groups\u201d. Click \u201cNew\u201d and provide a name for the deployment group. Now click into the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1091,1092,1554],"class_list":["post-8688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-ado","tag-azure-devops","tag-deployment-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}