Yaml deployment job download path issue

[rodchenkov]

When using deployment job in yaml the artifacts from CI pipeline downloaded to '/home/vsts/work/1/ci/...'
How to get this path as variable in pipeline?

Starting: Download Artifact

Task : Download build artifacts
Description : Download files that were saved as artifacts of a completed build
Version : 0.200.1
Author : Microsoft Corporation
Help : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-build-artifacts

Downloading artifacts for build: 4724
Downloading items from container resource #/21772323/project
Downloading artifact project from: https://dev.azure.com/aurochses//_apis/resources/Containers/21772323?itemPath=project&isShallow=true&api-version=4.1-preview.4
Downloading project/3rdpartylicenses.txt to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/3rdpartylicenses.txt
Downloaded project/3rdpartylicenses.txt to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/3rdpartylicenses.txt
Downloading project/favicon.ico to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/favicon.ico
Downloaded project/favicon.ico to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/favicon.ico
Downloading project/index.html to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/index.html
Downloaded project/index.html to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/index.html
Downloading project/main.06b493153b659fa5.js to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/main.06b493153b659fa5.js
Downloaded project/main.06b493153b659fa5.js to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/main.06b493153b659fa5.js
Downloading project/polyfills.f04764812ed2518a.js to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/polyfills.f04764812ed2518a.js
Downloaded project/polyfills.f04764812ed2518a.js to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/polyfills.f04764812ed2518a.js
Downloading project/runtime.231e96734c9fdc57.js to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/runtime.231e96734c9fdc57.js
Downloaded project/runtime.231e96734c9fdc57.js to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/runtime.231e96734c9fdc57.js
Downloading project/styles.ef46db3751d8e999.css to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/styles.ef46db3751d8e999.css
Downloaded project/styles.ef46db3751d8e999.css to /home/vsts/work/1/ci/project/styles.ef46db3751d8e999.css
Total Files: 7, Processed: 7, Skipped: 0, Failed: 0, Download time: 1.009 secs, Download size: 79505Bytes
Successfully downloaded artifacts to /home/vsts/work/1/ci
Finishing: Download Artifact

yaml example

stages:

• stage: Dev
  displayName: 'Dev'
  jobs:
  • deployment: Deploy
    displayName: 'Deploy'
    pool:
    vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
    environment: 'Dev'
    strategy:
    runOnce:
    deploy:
    steps:
    - task: AzureStaticWebApp@0
    inputs:
    workingDirectory: '$(Pipeline.Workspace)/ci'
    app_location: '/project'
    skip_app_build: true
    skip_api_build: true
    azure_static_web_apps_api_token: '$(devMainStaticWebAppApiKey)'

Thank you

[KonstantinTyukalov]

Hi @rodchenkov you can define pipeline variables by this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbatch

Your case will be like:

variables:
  CI_DIR: $(Pipeline.Workspace)/ci  # here you define pipeline variable

stages:
- stage: Dev
  displayName: 'Dev'
  jobs:
    deployment: Deploy
    displayName: 'Deploy'
    pool:
    vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
    environment: 'Dev'
    strategy:
    runOnce:
    deploy:
    steps:
    - task: AzureStaticWebApp@0
      inputs:
      workingDirectory: $(CI_DIR) # here you use it
      app_location: '/project'
      skip_app_build: true
      skip_api_build: true
      azure_static_web_apps_api_token: '$(devMainStaticWebAppApiKey)'

Is this solution fits your case?

[rodchenkov]

Hi @KonstantinTyukalov and thanks for your help.
Variable is nice option, but looks like what I really need is to understand how to get name of pipeline from witch we are getting artifacts.
What I found is that name of pipeline is same as name of folder to witch our CD downloads artifacts.
As you can see in code below in resources we have pipelines with one pipeline named ci
Later during download step we can see that subfolder for artifacts with same ci name created so we are getting this path '/home/vsts/work/1/ci/...'

Do we have any options to get name of pipeline or shall I just use variable with manual setup as you mentioned before?

`
trigger: none

resources:
pipelines:

• pipeline: ci
  source: CI_Website.Main
  trigger:
  branches:
  include:
  - refs/heads/main
  repositories:
• repository: templates
  type: github
  endpoint: 'GitHub.Pipeline.Templates'
  name: 'Org1/AzureDevOps.Pipeline.Templates'
  ref: 'refs/tags/latest'
• repository: other-templates
  type: git
  name: 'Org2/AzureDevOps.Pipeline.Templates'

variables:

• group: StaticWebApps

stages:

• stage: Dev
  displayName: 'Dev'
  jobs:
  • template: 'Angular/deploy-to-azure-static-web-app.yml@other-templates'
    parameters:
    environmentName: 'Dev'
    staticWebAppApiKey: $(devMainStaticWebAppApiKey)
    `