Azure DevOps Tasks

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Contributor Guide

Steps to create custom tasks in different CI/CD platforms.

AzureDevOps Task

• AzureDevOps Demo Organization
• AzureDevOps Publisher Profile

Go to the task directory and build using NCC compiler. For example;

npm install
npm run build
git commit -m "Update task"

Note: After building the task, delete the node_modules directory. Otherwise it slows down the deployment.

From home directory

tfx extension publish -t <PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Note: --shared-with is needed until the extension is publically shared

Creatinga UUID

To create a UUID for newly created tasks, you can use uuidgen command in Mac.

Pre-requisites

Cross-platform CLI for Azure DevOps to package your extensions. You can install tfx-cli by using npm, a component of Node.js, by running;

npm i -g tfx-cli

For each new task, create a GUID using;

• MacOS/Linux - uuidgen
• Windows (PowerShell) - New-Guid

References

• Extension manifest reference (vss-extension.json)
• Add a custom pipelines task extension
• Personal access token