Deploying to azure agent virtual machine - yml question

Question

I'm struggling to create YML file which will simply copy build artifacts (of my ASP.NET MVC app) to c:/samplefolder on my virtual machine (Azure Agent). Can anyone help me with that please?

Everywhere I have searched there was some "pool" and "pool-name" needed, but I don't have any pool:

Or there were some examples with stages, tasks, but I cannot use them since it's one YML file.

Answer 1

Based on the limited information that we could see form the screenshot, your VM was added into a pipeline environment as a VM resource, which should be referenced by the environment properties of deployment jobs in a YAML pipeline rather than referenced by any pool name, though it did generate a new deployment pool with the corresponding environment id.

Assuming your YAML pipeline was building your app on a Microsoft-hosted windows-latest agent and had been publishing pipeline artifacts (drop in my case), you may use a deployment job in downstream stage (CD) to scale out deployment onto all those VMs with web and app tags. All available artifacts from the current pipeline (downloaded to $(Pipeline.Workspace)/<artifact name>) and from the associated pipeline resources are automatically downloaded in deployment jobs and made available for your deployment. Please take a look at the - deployment: DeployToMyVM job in the sample YAML pipeline definition below.

stages:
- stage: CI
  jobs:
  - job: Build
    pool:
      vmImage: windows-latest
    displayName: Build App
    variables:
      BuildPlatform: 'any cpu'
      BuildConfiguration: 'release'
    steps:
    - powershell: |
       Write-Host "Just to represent the steps to build your .NET framework app, even though the steps were irrelevant to the query in this post" 
    - publish: $(PathToTheArtifactsFileThatWasBuilt)
      artifact: drop

- stage: CD
  jobs:
  - deployment: DeployToMyVM
    environment:
      name: MyVm
      tags: app,web
      resourceType: virtualMachine
    strategy:
      runOnce:
        deploy:
          steps:
          - powershell: |
              tree $(Pipeline.Workspace) /f /a
          - task: CopyFiles@2
            inputs:
              SourceFolder: '$(Pipeline.Workspace)/drop'
              Contents: '**'
              TargetFolder: 'C:\samplefolder'
              CleanTargetFolder: true

See more details in the following documents.

Create and target environments - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Learn

Deployment jobs - Azure Pipelines | Microsoft Learn

Automatic download in deployment jobs