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Service Fabric doesn't run a docker pull on deployment

I've setup VSTS to deploy an Service Fabric app with a Docker guest container. All goes well but Service Fabric doesn't download the latest version of my image, a docker pull doesn't seem to be performed.

I've added the 'Service Fabric PowerShell script' with a 'docker pull' command but this is then only run on one of the nodes.

Is there a way to run a powershell script/command during deployment, either in VSTS or Service Fabric, to run a command across all the nodes to do a docker pull?

Solution

    1. Please use an explicit version tag. Don't rely on 'latest'. An easy way to do this in VSTS, in the task 'Push Services' add $(Build.BuildId) in the field Additional Image Tags to tag your image.

    2. Next, you can use a tokenizer to replace the ServiceManifest.xml image tag value in your release pipeline. One of my favorites is this one.