During the Azure Release pipeline, I would like to copy a file in a Git repo to the wwwroot directory in the app service. The output from the task says it copies the file but it is not there. I am thinking I am not specifying the target folder properly. I currently have it as d:\home\site\wwwroot. Thanks for any help.
Copy file to Azure App Service During Release Pipeline
You could not use the copy task to copy a local file to the Azure app service. This task only supports local replication.
When you set it as d:\home\site\wwwroot, the copy task will copy the file to the folder in the agent, which runs this task rather than the Azure app service.
To resolve this issue, you could use Azure App Service Deploy task to deploy this file to the app service. In this task, set "Package or folder" path to the folder where the file exists.
Or you can consider the advice of Leo Varghese, to use the FTP upload task to copy that file to the app service.
Hope this helps.
#Doug, You an make use of the FTP upload task to copy a file in your build artifact to the wwwroot folder. Assuming your file in gitlab is present inside the artifact after the execution of build pipeline.
Please refer this article -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/ftp-upload?view=azure-devops
For performing FTP upload you will need your FTP credentials available for your web-app. This can be obtained from the Deployment Center of your web app.
Hope the above answers your question. Please let me know if you have any queries on this.
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I am deploying our NodeJS application to our Azure App service using Azure's local git. What I am basically doing is making our CICD pipeline git commit our changes and do a force push to Azure's Local Git. Then, Azure will build the application from the committed files, which seems to be working fine.
But today, I have made a shocking discovery, after couple of weeks of deployment, the files in the wwwroot folder does not match the files in the Local Git Repo. The files that do not exist anymore in the Local Git repo are still in the wwwroot folder
For example, the git repo contains the following files under prisma/migrations
But in the Azure App service wwwroot folder, the same directory contains more than that:
So, these files are actually from previous deployments that do not exist in the latest version of the master branch of the Local Git.
Upon looking at their deployment step, I learned that they are simply copying whatever files are created in their deployment "Oryx/Kudu" deployment step into the wwwroot folder without checking if there should be files needed to be deleted:
If this is the case with this approach, is there a proper way to do this?
Or is there a quick way to clean the existing wwwroot folder first before their deployer copy the files?
Hope somebody can help.
Thanks!
If you use the Azure App Service Deploy task in Azure DevOps Pipeline to deploy your application and select Web Deploy method option, there is an additional option to Remove Additional Files at Destination.
If you check this option, the deployment process will remove any files at the destination where there is no corresponding file in the package that is being deployed.
In other words, it'll remove any left-over files from a previous deployment that are no longer required.
Please refer to the similar ticket: How to clean up wwwroot folder on the target Azure Websites Windows Server before each deployment in VSTS.
In my Azure DevOps release pipeline, I want to upload a file from the build agent to app service server. For security reason, FTP is disabled by my organization. Is there a way to achieve this without FTP?
You could try Azure App Service Deploy task to deploy the file to the app service. In this task, set Package or folder argument to the folder path where the file exists.
We have an Azure DevOps release pipeline using the deploy azure app service task to deploy an application.
We would like to run a task prior to this deploy task to delete all files in the bin folder of the app service.
We do not want to delete all files on the target, just the ones in the bind folder.
I can't see any obvious task that will enable me to do this. Tasks seem to run in the context of the deployment server rather than the app service and so don't enable access to the app service file system.
What's the best way to do it?
If you are looking to avoid unwanted files then in the Azure App Service Deploy task there is an option "Remove additional files at destination" which while not explicitly deleting the bin folder content will ensure there is no residue from previous releases.
ON deploying from TFS 2015 to onpremise Server,it deletes empty folders in App Data Folder.I want to include the empty folders in AppData and set Read,write/full control permissions to that folder.I use WINRM IIS Web Deployment task.
This is how the feature has been designed. Take a look from our MSFT'S reply at this similar question: Publish Artifacts task does not copy up empty folders
I can confirm this is by design. I am assuming you are uploading
artifacts to Azure DevOps Service rather than to your own file share.
You should think of Azure DevOps Service's artifact storage more like
blob storage than a giant file share.
I see you say you need these empty directories at deployment time. Can
you create them as a step during the release rather than as a step
during the build? I would say that fits best with the build vs.
release abstraction.
Compressing all of your artifacts into a .zip before you copy them to
the artifact staging directory should also work. You will just have to
unzip them as part of the release.
As suggested, you can create the empty folders via a script to workaround the issue. It will also apply to the situation if you choose to publish to file share path. Besides, you could also zip the artifact and upload and unzip it during release.
I have a release in VSTS to deploy my webapp to the azure app service. For this I use a Azure App Service deploy step. After the normal deploy of the webapp I want to add an additional zip artifact from another build result. I want to copy only those file to a specific path of the web application on azure. How can I do that?
If the zip file is the web deploy package, you can refer to Joy’s answer. (Need to check Application option)
Otherwise, the simple way is using Kudu REST API (remain folder structure), steps:
Uncheck Publish using Web Deploy option of Azure App Service Deploy task
(Optional) Add Unzip task to extract zip files to a folder in artifact folder (the folder that you want in app service, e.g. D:/1/a/mylib)
Specify folder (parent folder of step 2 to remain folder structure) or package (zip) in Package or folder input box
You could use Virtual applications and directories to do it.You could check my steps.
Go to azure portal -> APPLICATION -> APPLICATION SETTINGS->Virtual applications and directories
set virtual directory with virtual path : /YourApplication to site\YourApplicationorsite\wwwroot\YourApplication
Go to VSTS-> the release option-> the Deploy Azure App Service task
set virtual application to /myApplication
Hope it can help you.
If using Azure DevOps for your CI then an alternative solution is to zip your file(s) including directory structure from the web root and add them into DevOps as a 'secure file' (find this under library/secure files once you've configured an Azure KeyVault).
Then add a pipeline task to download the secure file (use "Download secure file" task) to your build server. Make sure you add a "Reference name" to this task so you can reference the downloaded file path in a later step.
Then add a stand-alone "Azure App Service Deploy" step to deploy just this zip file. Select deployment method of "Zip deploy" and reference your downloaded secure file in the "Package or folder" section, like $(secureFileReferenceName.secureFilePath).
This effectively downloads the zip file from secure storage to the build agent and unzips it to wwwroot in the App Service.