Azure DevOps Pipeline task fails but still shows green (sucess) - azure

Question

Task is running on Node.
Part of the yaml file for the pipeline is:
steps:
- script: |
#!/bin/bash
./plan.sh
displayName: "example deploy"
continueOnError: false
Now, when sometimes the ./plan.sh script fails: but it still shows as a success (green tick) in the pipeline. See below:
How do I make it show a "failed" red cross whenever it fails?

Answer 1

What you are doing now is actually calling the bash script file from PowerShell. Your way of writing it cannot capture the error message. The correct way is as follows:
plan2.sh
xxx
pipeline YAML definition:
trigger:
- none
pool:
vmImage: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- script: |
bash $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/plan2.sh
displayName: "example deploy"
continueOnError: false
Successfully get the issue:
But usually, we use the bash task directly to run the bash script.
plan.sh
{
xxx
# Your code here.
} || {
# save log for exception
echo some error output here.
exit 1
}
pipeline YAML definition part:
steps:
- task: Bash#3
displayName: 'Bash Script'
inputs:
targetType: filePath
filePath: ./plan.sh
Successfully get the issue:

Answer 2

For your script step to signal failure, you need to make the script as a whole return a non-0 exit code. You may need some conditional logic in your script, checking the exit code from plan.sh after it returns.

Answer 3

I was able to solve this by adding
set -o pipefail
In the start of the yaml file.