Today I was busy setting up a new CI pipeline on Azure DevOps. As part of this pipeline I wanted to create a web deploy package that later can be picked up by a release pipeline to deploy it on multiple environments.
Here is the pipeline I created:
| # Starter pipeline | |
| # Start with a minimal pipeline that you can customize to build and deploy your code. | |
| # Add steps that build, run tests, deploy, and more: | |
| # https://aka.ms/yaml | |
| trigger: | |
| - master | |
| pool: | |
| vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest' | |
| variables: | |
| solution: '**/*.sln' | |
| buildPlatform: 'Any CPU' | |
| buildConfiguration: 'Development' | |
| artifactName: 'WebDeployArtifact' | |
| steps: | |
| - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2 | |
| displayName: 'dotnet build' | |
| inputs: | |
| projects: '**/*.csproj' | |
| arguments: '--configuration $(buildConfiguration)' | |
| - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2 | |
| displayName: 'Run tests' | |
| inputs: | |
| command: 'test' | |
| projects: '**/*[Tt]ests/*.csproj' | |
| - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2 | |
| displayName: 'Publish service' | |
| inputs: | |
| command: 'publish' | |
| publishWebProjects: true | |
| arguments: '--configuration $(BuildConfiguration) /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)""' | |
| zipAfterPublish: false | |
| modifyOutputPath: false | |
| - task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1 | |
| displayName: 'Publish Artifact' | |
| inputs: | |
| PathtoPublish: '$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)' | |
| ArtifactName: $(artifactName) | |
Unfortunately when I tried to run this pipeline, it failed with the following error message:
/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/6.0.401/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish/targets/PublishTargets/Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Publish.MSDeployPackage.targets(97,5): error MSB6004: The specified task executable location "%ProgramW6432%/IIS/Microsoft Web Deploy V3/msdeploy.exe" is invalid. [/home/vsts/work/1/s/Example/Example.csproj]
##[error]Error: The process '/usr/bin/dotnet' failed with exit code 1
The reason why this fails is because MSDeploy is a Windows-only thing. Inside my pipeline I had specified to use a Linux build server. That explains why it cannot find "%ProgramW6432%/IIS/Microsoft Web Deploy V3/msdeploy.exe".
To fix it, I updated my pipeline to use a Windows VM instead:
| # Starter pipeline | |
| # Start with a minimal pipeline that you can customize to build and deploy your code. | |
| # Add steps that build, run tests, deploy, and more: | |
| # https://aka.ms/yaml | |
| trigger: | |
| - master | |
| pool: | |
| vmImage: 'windows-latest' |