Publish and download build artifacts
Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019
Note
We recommend using Download Pipeline Artifacts and Publish Pipeline Artifacts for faster performance.
Azure Artifacts enables teams to use feeds and upstream sources to manage their dependencies. You can use Azure Pipelines to publish and download different types of artifacts as part of your CI/CD workflow.
Publish artifacts
Artifacts can be published at any stage of your pipeline. You can use YAML or the classic Azure DevOps editor to publish your packages.
- powershell: gci env:* | sort-object name | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File $env:BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY/environment-variables.txt
- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
inputs:
pathToPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
artifactName: drop
- pathToPublish: the path of your artifact. This can be an absolute or a relative path. Wildcards aren't supported.
- artifactName: the name of your artifact.
Note
Make sure you aren't using one of the reserved folder names when publishing your artifact. See Application Folders for more details.
Example: Use multiple tasks
- powershell: gci env:* | sort-object name | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File $env:BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY/environment-variables.txt
- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
inputs:
pathToPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
artifactName: drop1
- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
inputs:
pathToPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
artifactName: drop2
- pathToPublish: the path of your artifact. This can be an absolute or a relative path. Wildcards aren't supported.
- artifactName: the name of your artifact.
Example: Copy and publish binaries
- powershell: gci env:* | sort-object name | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File $env:BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY/environment-variables.txt
- task: CopyFiles@2
inputs:
sourceFolder: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)'
contents: '**/$(BuildConfiguration)/**/?(*.exe|*.dll|*.pdb)'
targetFolder: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
- task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
inputs:
pathToPublish: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)'
artifactName: drop
- sourceFolder: the folder that contains the files you want to copy. If you leave this empty, copying will be done from $(Build.SourcesDirectory).
- contents: File paths to include as part of the copy.
- targetFolder: destination folder.
- pathToPublish: the folder or file path to publish. It can be an absolute or a relative path. Wildcards aren't supported.
- artifactName: the name of the artifact that you want to create.
Note
Make sure not to use reserved name for artifactName such as Bin or App_Data. See ASP.NET Web Project Folder Structure for more details.
Download artifacts
- powershell: gci env:* | sort-object name | Format-Table -AutoSize | Out-File $env:BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY/environment-variables.txt
- task: DownloadBuildArtifacts@0
inputs:
buildType: 'current'
downloadType: 'single'
artifactName: 'drop'
downloadPath: '$(System.ArtifactsDirectory)'
- buildType: specify which build artifacts will be downloaded:
current
(the default value) or from a specific build. - downloadType: choose whether to download a single artifact or all artifacts of a specific build.
- artifactName: the name of the artifact that will be downloaded.
- downloadPath: path on the agent machine where the artifacts will be downloaded.
Note
If you're using a deployment task, you can reference your build artifacts using $(Agent.BuildDirectory). See Agent variables for more details.
When your pipeline run is completed, navigate to Summary to explore or download your artifact.
Tips
Disable IIS Basic Authentication if you're using Azure DevOps Server to allow authentication with your Personal Access Token. See IIS Basic Authentication and PATs for more details.
Use forward slashes in file path arguments. Backslashes don't work in macOS/Linux agents.
Build artifacts are stored on a Windows filesystem, which causes all UNIX permissions to be lost, including the execution bit. You might need to restore the correct UNIX permissions after downloading your artifacts from Azure Pipelines.
Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory
andBuild.StagingDirectory
are interchangeable.Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory
path is cleaned up after each build.Deleting a build associated with packages published to a file share will result in the deletion of all Artifacts in that UNC path.
If you're publishing your packages to a file share, make sure you provide access to the build agent.
Make sure you allow Azure Artifacts Domain URLs and IP addresses if your organization is using a firewall.