Background I just upgraded our Azure/Docker container hosted SonarQube instance from 10.5.1 to 10.6.0. This was partly due to our usual upgrade process, we try to upgrade within a week or so of a new release, but also to address a specific Java issue we started to see when using the SonarQube@6 Azure DevOps tasks. The error was the SonarQube analysis completed successfully, but the clean up process failed with this JVM error....
The Problem I have an Azure DevOps YAML template that does some deployment actions using PowerShell. This template is used multiple locations. The problem is that the PowerShell step within the template needs a variable number of environment variables, set from values stored in an Azure DevOps variable Group. The number of variables is not fixed because they depend on the underlying commands the PowerShell script is triggering to do the deployment....
I have blogged in the past about Caching NVD Vulnerability Dependency data on hosted Azure DevOps Pipeline agents. Using the cache is a great way to speed up slow builds. However, today I was surprised to find I was getting cache misses on my pipeline, even though I was sure the cache should have been hit. There are rules over how the cache is used: The cache is specific to a pipeline definition, so there is no sharing of the cache between pipeline definitions The cache is only created if the pipeline is successful (running the post run tasks) The cache only lasts 7 days but what I had not realised was the cache is also specific to the branch in a not so obvious way....
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The Issue Whilst migrating some Azure DevOps classic pipelines to templated multi-stage YAML, I hit a problem that a job running on a self-hosted agent would not start. The YAML stage, which required approval, would be queued and approved, but the agent would just sit there with the message Starting job but would never start. The strange thing was even though the job was not started, the pipeline instantly showed as failed with no error message....