How to use ARM template in CommandToExecute section which uses chcocolatey script

Question

Hi,
I am using chocolatey command to install deployment agent after creating my VM in azure portal.
I have below command in the extension script.

"commandToExecute": "[concat('C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\choco.exe install azure-pipelines-agent --params \"''/Directory:c:\agent /Token:', parameters('myPAT'),' /DeploymentGroup:true /projectname:', parameters('ProjectName'),' /deploymentgroupname: ', parameters('DeploymentGroupName'), ' /DeploymentGroupTags:%COMPUTERNAME% /LogonAccount:', [concat(parameters('newVMName'), '\', parameters('UserName'))],' /LogonPassword:', parameters('password'),' /Replace /Url:https://dev.azure.com/xyz ''\" -y ')]"

I needed to use ARM template parameters in above command , not sure what I have written is correct. Can anybody suggest how should I use ?

Note : ProjectName is having Space in it

Thanks in advance,
Abhishek

Answer 1

@Abhishek Rao Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding on this and any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

Chocolatey is a package manager for windows (similar to Yum/Apt-Get) used by Azure customers for installing packages. Chocolatey allows you to use the command line to install packages from a central repository onto a Windows operating system. You can create and manage your own repository, and Chocolatey can install packages from any number of repositories that you designate.

Below will be architecture for same:

Did you got a chance to go through below documentation which talks about integration of Chocolatey in Azure and might be helpful with your scenario:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-dsc-cd-chocolatey

Hope it helps.

Do let me know if you have any further queries.

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Answer 2

@Abhishek Rao Apologies for the delay in response. I got few inputs from our team as below:

[concat(
'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\choco.exe install azure-pipelines-agent --params \"''/Directory:c:\agent /Token:', <--- I think this is meant to be two segments? Not sure why \” is there at all, but after the first ‘ should probably be a comma before the directory portion
parameters('myPAT'),
' /DeploymentGroup:true /projectname:',
parameters('ProjectName'),
' /deploymentgroupname: ',
parameters('DeploymentGroupName'),
' /DeploymentGroupTags:%COMPUTERNAME% /LogonAccount:',
[concat(parameters('newVMName'), <--- Why does this start a new concat function? I think this is part of the break, too. Should probably just be the parameter portion as a argument to the first concat
'\',
parameters('UserName'))], <--- This looks like it’s trying to end that second concat. Removing the 2nd concat will clean this up and since it’s one giant concat, no reason to sub-concat that I’m aware of
' /LogonPassword:',
parameters('password'),
' /Replace /Url:https://dev.azure.com/xyz ''\" -y ' **<--- This is another with extra ticks **
)]

In addition I would suggest as this issues need more investigation and live troubleshooting for quicker resolution I would recommend you to contact azure support. If you have a support plan, requesting you to file a support ticket, else please do let us know, we will try and help you get a one-time free technical support.

Thank you for your cooperation on this matter and look forward to your reply.

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