Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

In this article, Lets see how to Publish and Access Build Artifacts using ADO Pipeline.

What are Build Artifacts:

• Build artifacts are the files generated by your build.
• In ADO Pipelines, We can use Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory Predefined Variable, on the agent where any artifacts are copied to.

Below are the steps to Publish and Download the Build Artefacts in a ADO Pipeline.

Steps to Publish the Build Artefacts:

• Lets see how to Publish a file to Build Artifacts folder, using following ‘Power Platform Export Solution’ Task.
• In the below Task, I am exporting a Solution from CRM Instance and publishing as $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)\$(SolutionName)_managed.zip by using the ‘Solution Output File’ property.

• In the above the ‘Solution Output File’ property, $(SolutionName) is my custom defined ‘Pipeline Variable’ contains Solution name.
  • ‘ALM_Base’ is my Dynamics Instance Solution name.

• And $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory) is Predefined Variable.
• Once the pipeline runs successfully, you can download the published artefacts (i.e., Solution folder) as follows.

Steps to Download the Build Artefacts:

• Go to Pipeline Runs and select the last run.

• Click on the below highlighted link.

• Select the folder you want to download.

• We also have an option to commit these files to Git using ‘Command Line Script’ task.

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