Does Azure DevOps Services Secure Files and the Download Secure Files task for the Azure Pipeline support Windows Agents too?
Secure Files
The technical documentation given in the Microsoft docs provides an example only for Linux agents and hence the question.
Download Secure Files Task
Yes, "Download secure file" task works for Windows agents.
Related
in my company we're using Azure DevOps hosted on-premises. We have an internal team managing Azure DevOps Server and we need to disable the auto-update function for some (or even all) Azure extensions as SonarQube, because some new versions cause our build pipelines (they are nearly a hundred) failure.
How it is possible to disable auto-update function, so we can schedulate updates to have minimum impacts.
We prefer, if there is a way, to disable auto-update of DevOps extensions using Azure DevOps Server managing console.
Thank for anyone help.
According to your description, currently there is no option to control the auto-update Azure DevOps Extensions.
You could use "Request a feature" on the left side of Azure DevOps Developer Community to open a new suggestion ticket.
I am developing CD release pipeline using TFS 2015 update 2 on-prem instance. I'm relying on ARM template to setup Azure website and Azure Sql server. I'm using FTP method for deploying website bits from internal Build server to Azure website. For this website deployment I'm reading the credentials from PublsihingProfile of the newly created website.
Is this a right way or can you suggest a better way? Any comments are appreciated.
P.S. Customer wants to use FTP method and not WebDeploy.
If you really have to use FTP, and the thing you're not happy with is the process/password secret management, you could try this:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=januskamphansen.ftpupload-task
Its a VSTS extension task for release, which works with the vnext build/release system in VSTS or TFS2015 server. This task lets you put the parameters in against each environment you setup, and mark the passwords as secrets so they wont come out in logs or the UI.
The step basically wraps up the process of doing the ftp bit for you - you may want to do other steps as part of the release.
How can I publish to an Azure Website (NO VM!) using Microsoft Release Management.
At the moment, ms release management only seems to support deploying to Azure VM's. I like MS Release Management system as it lets me control my deployment variables across multiple deployment stages.
Basically, this is not a supported scenario out of the box.
Your best bet here is to use an agent-based release template with a "springboard" server to manage the release, and custom PowerShell scripts that use the Azure SDK to interact with Azure. One of my colleagues did the leg work to figure it out a few months ago, and has a few comprehensive blog posts describing how he accomplished deploying an Azure Web Application via RM.
Visual Studio Release Management now offers built-in steps to manage Azure App Services. In a Release Management process add the Azure App Service Deploy step, and configure for your website. Note that this step requires your site to be published as a .zip file.
In addition to the deploy step, it is best practice to deploy to an inactive slot, or stop / start the site using the Azure App Service Manage steps in Release Management.
For now, you should take a look at the new build system, it has an out of box task to deploy a package to azure web app.
I know very little about Azure, but I am looking for a cloud server where I can have clients SFTP their files to us. It will be used primarily for data storage. The only requirement is that the files be sent over SFTP (not FTP).
Does anyone have any experience with this? How difficult is this to setup? Is this even possible?
You can find step by step instructions on how to set up a regular FTP site on Windows Azure VM here - http://nicoploner.blogspot.com/2010/12/ftp-server-on-windows-azure-from.html
Here's how to set up SFTP on Windows Server (applies to Azure VM as well) - http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows
Yes you can set up an Azure VM Role and then install a SFTP Server for a Windows Server.
You can also set up a Linux VM Role and just use the native sftp command.
Depending on what you are doing, you may want to use a RESTful service that points back to blob storage (this is not SFTP), but it does go over HTTPs and you have all the benefits of Azure Blob Storage directly.
Here are a couple of options and additional resources:
1) You can install SFTP on Windows Server
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server
This uses an OpenSSH package on GitHub from Microsoft.
2) You can use an Ubuntu VM
As #Bart Czernicki mentioned, OpenSSH is built into Linux, and it comes with SFTP out of the box. Customize your implementation using the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
3) SFTP Gateway
We have a product on the Azure Marketplace called SFTP Gateway that might help. (Disclosure: I work for Thorn Technologies.)
This is a good option for launching an SFTP server without having to build it from scratch. It also has a web interface for managing users, to help minimize the time spent at the SSH terminal.
BTW, although this wasn't asked in the original question, you might want to consider moving data to a durable storage layer (Azure Blob Storage). One approach would be to use incron to listen for file events. Once a file is done transferring via SFTP, use the Azure CLI to copy the file to Azure Blob Storage, and then delete the file from disk on success. This is the approach we used to build SFTP Gateway.
Hope this helps!
This might not be so much of a programming question..but still..
I have the need of getting a site the currently is hosted in azure down to a local development environment.. is there anyway to do that?, any tools or such?..
Thanks in advance!
Not currently. Once the cloud service deployment package has been handed over to the Azure Fabric controller, there is no way to reclaim it, even if you submit a support ticket. The closest you can get to this is either upload packages to Windows Azure Blob Storage first, then deploy from there, or enable remote desktop and copy the files from inside the VM to an external storage account.
My suggestion would be to do one of the following:
If you have RDP enabled, you can remote in and grab the files
Otherwise, I would suggest creating a support case and having Microsoft help you get out the files: https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?&c1=501&gprid=14928&&st=1&wfxredirect=1&sd=gn