Request for information is it possible to publish artifacts from the execution of `runCmd`?

[articho28]

I was looking through the documentation but was unable to find anything about artifacts that are not container images. My team uses Azure Devops and I wanted to try using this task to simplify our CI story. We have some private container images packaged with binary utilities and we use CI scripts to produce a pipeline artifact which we then publish to a feed. It works, but it is a painful debugging experience when making tweaks, and I was hoping to improve on this by trying out dev containers instead. Is it possible to publish artifacts created by the invocation of runCmd as a pipeline artifact (or as something for subsequent steps to consume)?

Thanks for your reply!

[saikatdas0790]

@articho28 Were you able to find an answer to this?

[articho28]

Hello,

No, I wasn’t able to find any answers. I did found out however that dev containers do not support windows containers, so that sadly prevents us from leveraging this.

[sireeshajonnalagadda]

Hi @articho28,
Thanks for reaching out!

Could you please try this task, which allow you to publish your artifacts.

In Azure DevOps, the publish command can be used to publish pipeline artifacts (such as files, binaries, or logs) generated during the pipeline. You can integrate this with a DevContainer by running your commands (via runCmd) and then publishing the artifacts.

trigger:

• main
  pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
  # First step: Run the DevContainer task and invoke your custom command
• task: DevcontainersCi@0
  inputs:
  runCmd: 'make ci-build'
  # Second step: Publish the generated artifacts from the container as a pipeline artifact
• task: PublishPipelineArtifact@1
  inputs:
  targetPath: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/path/to/your/output'
  artifactName: 'my-artifact'
  publishLocation: 'Pipeline'

this could work for you!
please feel free to reach out me, in case of any further concerns!

Thanks,
Sireesha

[sireeshajonnalagadda]

Hi @articho28
As there hasn’t been any response in two weeks, I’m closing this issue for now. Don’t hesitate to reopen it if you have any concerns