I am using the WinRM - IIS Web App Deployment task that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Marketplace. For the source location, I want to use
$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\**\*.zip
However, this translates to a local path where the build agent resides, but not a path on the target machine. I want to turn the local path into a UNC path by replacing the initial 'c:\' with '\servername\c$\'. Is this possible?
This article about release variables does not tell me anything about how to actually use the variables.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=batch
You need to push the binaries to the server first by using the Windows Machine File Copy task.
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Can some please help me using the directory structure in the Jenkins job for sending files to the remote ssh server?
Jenkins Publish Over SSH: How to give windows directory(Eg: E:\Test\SFTP\In\Test.txt) in source file and Remote directory in unix(/data/xyz/test/sftp/In)
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If I understood you correctly, you want to publish a file from your build server (windows) to you remove server (UNIX) ?
In that case you could do the following.
When jenkins builds your package, it will build it in your project workspace folder which is located in your jenkins working directory.
If you want to deploy everything that is on there you can set / in your source files field in which case it will take all files and all directories
and will publish it to the desired path on the remote server. On this example it publishes it to /usr/share/nginx/html but in your case it would be /data/xyz/test/sftp/In
Something quite important, depending on your configuration, sometimes it considers the given path as relative to the jenkins home path so either make ~/data/xyz/test/sftp/In or data/xyz/test/sftp/In.
I am trying to copy war and ear files from windows share path(UNC) to linux target servers where jboss jvm is running and then deploy these files using our custom script. this is for applications that are still not using tfs to do their build. i tried download from file share task in azure devops but that is only copying to the agent location but not to the target server. if anyone has come across this situation and found a solution please do share your thoughts. appreciate it. thanks.
You need to use two tasks/steps to handle this situation.
Copy/download files from windows share path(UNC) to a folder path in build agent machine, such as $(Agent.BuildDirectory)
Copy files from a source folder to a target folder on a remote Linux server machine over SSH.
Since you have successfully download from file share task in Azure DevOps to agent machine. Then you just need to use Copy Files Over SSH task.
Use this task in a build or release pipeline to copy files from a
source folder to a target folder on a remote machine over SSH.
This task allows you to connect to a remote machine using SSH and copy
files matching a set of minimatch patterns from specified source
folder to target folder on the remote machine. Supported protocols for
file transfer are SFTP and SCP via SFTP. In addition to Linux, macOS
is partially supported.
More detail configuration about this task please refer official link here-- Copy Files Over SSH task
I want to copy my Config File Directly from TFS to Another Server where my site is hosted. How can i do it using TFS Build 2017. Which Task i need to add for this and what arguments i need to specify if any.
You could use Windows Machine File Copy task, and you need to specify the source path, remote machine IP addresses, the username and password that login the remote machine, and the destination folder.
I have found many examples of Linux to Windows or OSX to Windows, but battling to find how to copy build files from a Windows server installation of Jenkins, to the
Windows server which will host the website.
I tried Copy Artifact Plugin - but it seems this is used to copy other builds into the current build - is this correct?
Or can it be used to copy the build that just execute to a remote Windows folder?
What should I use to copy to another Windows server?
I would like to not use batch files. Can/should powershell be used?
The idea would be to copy the files to a timestamped folder on the hosting Windows server
e.g.
xcopy *.* \\MyHostingServer\Temp
Then only after everything has copied successfully - to copy the files from MyHostingServer\Temp into the correct web folder. This is to prevent the deployment to the web folder if e.g. network connection was lost halfway.
I am having a really hard time getting Windows specific information.
I suggest to use two jobs:
build job is running on the first Windows server. Archive your build files as an artifacts to the job
deployment job should run on second Windows server. You can use "Copy artifacts from another project" to get your build files locally (on second server)
I am looking for a way to merge full local directory to a remote server using jenkins. It is easy to use some FTP plugin to delete while remote directory and re-upload all the files, but i would like to only upload new/changed files and remove the deleted files.
Is it possible to do that using jenkins? Maybe some other automation tool?
On Unix or Linux you can run 'rsync' with the two directories as parameters -
either on the local or on the remote host.
Just make sure you are not in the middle of some other operation while 'rsync' runs.