Deploying ASP .NET app to FTP with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline

22/10/2020 by Piotr Bach - 1 min read

Introduction

In this post, I will show how to configure the Azure DevOps pipeline - to easily publish an ASP .NET app to FTP server. The core part of the pipeline is VSBuild and FTPUpload task.

How does the azure pipeline work?

Triggers after committing to the master branch
Uses the latest windows machine to build a solution in Release mode
Restores the missing NuGet packages
Publishes web app to file system folder
Uploads the files to the FTP server using the FtpUpload task (Read more about the FTPUpload task on Microsoft's docs page).

Full azure-pipelines.yml YAML code

# ASP.NET
# Build and test ASP.NET projects.
# Add steps that publish symbols, save build artifacts, deploy, and more:
# https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/apps/aspnet/build-aspnet-4

trigger:
- master

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

variables:
  solution: '**/*.sln'
  buildPlatform: 'Any CPU'
  buildConfiguration: 'Release'

steps:
- task: NuGetToolInstaller@1

- task: NuGetCommand@2
  inputs:
    restoreSolution: '$(solution)'

- task: VSBuild@1
  inputs:
    solution: '$(solution)'
    msbuildArgs: '/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:DeployDefaultTarget=WebPublish /p:WebPublishMethod=FileSystem /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:publishUrl=$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\website'
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'

- task: VSTest@2
  inputs:
    platform: '$(buildPlatform)'
    configuration: '$(buildConfiguration)'

- task: FtpUpload@2
  inputs:
    credentialsOption: 'inputs'
    serverUrl: 'ftp://127.0.0.1'
    username: 'ftp-user-name'
    password: 'P@ssword'
    rootDirectory: '$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)/website'
    filePatterns: '**'
    remoteDirectory: '/wwwroot' # '/wwwroot/$(Build.BuildId)/'
    clean: false
    cleanContents: false
    preservePaths: true
    trustSSL: false

To download the source code for this post, please visit GitHub

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