Azure Devops

Self hosted agents

• Configuring selfhosted agent on linux
  
• Once agent is online it shows in the Agent Pool
  
• azure-pipelines

---
pool: default

trigger:
  - master

jobs:
  - job: Preparation_job
    displayName: install softwares
    steps:
      - task: DotNetCoreInstaller@1
        inputs:
          packageType: 'sdk'
          version: 6.x
  - job: Build_Job
    displayName: Build dotnet project
    dependsOn: Preparation_job
    condition: succeeded()
    steps:
      - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
        inputs:
          command: 'build'
          projects: src/dotnet-demoapp.csproj
  - job: Test_Job
    displayName: Test dotnet
    dependsOn: Build_Job
    condition: succeeded()
    steps:
      - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
        inputs:
          command: 'build'
          projects: tests/tests.csproj

Variables in Azure Pipelines

• Refer Here for official docs
• Azure DevOps Pipelines allows us to
  • create our custom variables
  • use predefined variables Refer Here
• We can use predefined variables according to the needs in the pipeline, some examplse copy the builds to the shared folder/s3/azure storage account

---
pool:
  name: "Azure Pipelines" 
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

trigger:
  - main

steps:
  - task: Bash@3
    inputs:
      targetType: inline
      script: echo "Build Directory is $(Agent.BuildDirectory)"
  - task: Maven@3
    inputs:
      mavenPomFile: 'pom.xml'
      goals: 'package'
      publishJUnitResults: true
      testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'
      jdkVersionOption: '1.17'

• Creating user-defined variables Refer Here
• Parameters are the inputs that can be passed during build triggers
  

---
pool:
  name: "Azure Pipelines" 
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

trigger:
  - main

parameters:
  - name: goal
    displayName: Maven Goal
    type: string
    default: package
    values:
      - clean
      - package
      - test
      - compile
      - install
      - deploy

variables:
  - name: checking
    value: nothing

steps:
  - task: Maven@3
    inputs:
      mavenPomFile: 'pom.xml'
      goals: ${{ parameters.goal }}
      publishJUnitResults: true
      testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'
      jdkVersionOption: '1.17'