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Manage VM resources in environments

  • Artikkeli

Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 | Azure DevOps Server 2020

This article describes how to use virtual machine (VM) resources in environments to manage Azure Pipelines deployments across multiple machines. You can also install agents on your own servers for rolling deployments.

VM resources can exist in environments, such as Development, Test, or Production. After you define an environment, you can add VMs to target with deployments. The environment's deployment history provides traceability from each VM to your pipeline.

Prerequisites

  • Access to a source repository that's connected to your pipeline.
  • Access and permission to download and run executable scripts on the VMs you want to connect to the environment.
  • Project Administrator or Build Administrator permissions in the Azure DevOps project that contains the environment. For more information, see Pipeline security resources.
  • Administrator role for the deployment pool, or set of target servers available to the organization. For more information, see deployment pool and environment permissions.

Note

To configure a deployment group agent, or if you see an error when registering a VM environment resource, make sure you set your personal access token (PAT) scope to All accessible organizations.

Create the environment

Use the following procedure to add a VM resource to an environment. You can use the same process to set up physical machines.

Add a VM resource

  1. In your Azure DevOps project, go to Pipelines > Environments and then select Create environment or New environment.

  2. On the first New environment screen, add a Name and an optional Description.

  3. Under Resource, select Virtual machines, and then select Next.

    Screenshot that shows adding an environment.

Copy the registration script

The agent scripts for VM resources are like the scripts for self-hosted agents, and use the same commands. The scripts include an Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (PAT) for the signed-in user, which expires three hours after the script is generated.

  1. On the next New environment screen, choose Linux under Operating system.

  2. Copy the Linux registration script.

    Screenshot that shows adding a virtual machine.

The script is the same for all the Linux VMs added to the environment. For more information about installing the agent script, see Self-hosted Linux agents.

Run the copied script

  1. Select Close, and note that the new environment is created. To copy the script again, for example if your PAT expires, select Add resource.

    Screenshot of the new environment created message.

  2. Run the copied script on each target VM that you want to register with the environment.

    Note

    If the VM already has another agent running on it, provide a unique name for agent to register with the environment.

Once the VM is registered, it appears as a resource under the Resources tab of the environment.

Screenshot of the Resources tab.

Use VMs in pipelines

In your YAML pipeline, you can target VMs by referencing their environment. By default, the job targets all the VMs registered for that environment's resourceName.

Note

When you retry a stage, the deployment reruns on all VMs, not just failed targets.

trigger: 
- main

pool: 
   vmImage: ubuntu-latest

jobs:
- deployment: VMDeploy
  displayName: Deploy to VM
  environment: 
   name: VMenv
   resourceName: VMenv
   resourceType: virtualMachine
  strategy:
     runOnce:
        deploy:   
          steps:
            - script: echo "Hello world"

Note

The resourceType values like virtualMachine are case sensitive. Incorrect casing results in no matching resources found.

You can deploy to specific VMs in the environment by specifying them in resourceName. The following example deploys only to the VM resource named RESOURCE-PC in the VMenv environment.

trigger: 
- main

pool: 
   vmImage: ubuntu-latest

jobs:
- deployment: VMDeploy
  displayName: Deploy to VM
  environment: 
    name: VMenv
    resourceType: virtualMachine
    resourceName: RESOURCE-PC # only deploy to the VM resource named RESOURCE-PC
  strategy:
    runOnce:
      deploy:   
          steps:
          - script: echo "Hello world"

For more information about YAML pipeline deployment jobs, see the YAML pipelines schema.

Add and manage tags

Tags are a way to target a specific set of VMs in an environment for deployment. Tags are limited to 256 characters each. There's no limit to the number of tags that you can use.

You can add tags or remove tags for VMs in the interactive registration script or through the UI by selecting More actions for a VM resource.

Screenshot that shows setting VM tags.

If you specify multiple tags, the pipeline uses only VMs that include all the tags. The following example targets only VMs that have both the windows and prod tags. VMs that have only one or none of the tags aren't targeted.

trigger: 
- main

pool: 
   vmImage: ubuntu-latest

jobs:
- deployment: VMDeploy
  displayName: Deploy to VM
  environment: 
    name: VMenv
    resourceType: virtualMachine
    tags: windows,prod # only deploy to VMs with both windows and prod tags
  strategy:
    runOnce:
      deploy:   
          steps:
          - script: echo "Hello world"

Apply deployment strategy

You can apply a deployment strategy to define how to roll out your application. VMs support both the runOnce and the rolling strategies. For more information about deployment strategies and lifecycle hooks, see Deployment strategies.

View deployment history

Select the Deployments tab for complete traceability of commits and work items, and a cross-pipeline deployment history per environment and resource.

Screenshot that shows VM Deployments view.

Remove a VM from an environment

To remove a VM from a Linux environment, run the following command on each machine.

./config.sh remove

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