Copy deployment result from an Azure Mac hosted agent to a private Windows agent

Question

In Azure DevOps I have a release definition that executes the command productbuild --component $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/$(RELEASE.PRIMARYARTIFACTSOURCEALIAS)/My/Folder.app/ /Applications My.pkg to create a new pkg file starting from the built artifact. This command is executed on a Mac hosted agent.

Now I need to put the pkg on a specific path of a Windows machine on which I have an Azure DevOps' private agent. My problem is the copy operation from the Mac hosted machine to a private machine having the private agent. Is there any way to accomplish this task?

Thank you

Answer 1

Since you can't move pkg creation to build pipeline you need to upload it to for instance Blob Storage (if you use already Azure it should not be a problem), or to FTP (it could be on your host agent or not) then you should trigger pipeline/release (using this extension and passing url/location of upload pkg file.

Answer 2

You can publish the pkg file to Azure artifacts feed in your release pipeline using Universal Package task. And then download the pkg file to your private machine. See below steps:

1, Create a Azure Artifacts feed from Azure devops portal.

2, Add Universal Package task in your release pipeline to publish your pkg file as a universal package to above artifacts feed.

- task: UniversalPackages@0
  displayName: 'Universal publish'
  inputs:
    command: publish
    publishDirectory: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/package.pkg'
    vstsFeedPublish: 'FeedId'
    vstsFeedPackagePublish: 'package_name'

3, Add a agent job in your release pipeline stage. And configure it to run on your private agent.

Then you can and add Universal Package task in this agent job to download this pkg file to your private machine.