Pass a Built Docker Image from VSTS Build Pipeline to VSTS Release Pipeline

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Pass Built Docker Image from Build Pipeline to Release Pipeline

I'm currently successfully building a Docker image in a VSTS Build Pipeline. I would like to take this built image and then Publish it as a Build Artifact so that a VSTS Release Pipeline may use our AWS credentials to push the image to our Elastic Container Registry.

Currently I'm finding a bunch of workarounds involving either one or the other -- a single Build pipeline that builds the image then pushes it to ECR via CLI, or a single Release Pipeline with Bash tasks to build the image and then an ECR task to push.

I've tried a bunch of different things, including publishing the directory that Ubuntu stores the Docker containers in (didn't work due to permissions). I'm trying to maintain a consistent paradigm in my company of Build Pipelines doing the building and Release Pipelines doing the deployment; it seems that trying not to mince these two ideas for an ECR release may not be plausible.

Is this possible, and if so how? Thanks!

Answer 1

example yaml build that is using service connection:

jobs:
- job: build_server
  timeoutInMinutes: 30 
  pool:
    vmImage: 'Ubuntu-16.04'
  steps:
  - checkout: self
    clean: true

  - task: Docker@1
    inputs:
      containerregistrytype: 'Container Registry'
      dockerRegistryEndpoint: yyy
      imageName: xxx
      includeLatestTag: true
      dockerFile: dockerfile
  - task: Docker@1
    inputs:
      containerregistrytype: 'Container Registry'
      dockerRegistryEndpoint: yyy
      imageName: xxx
      command: push