How to add HTML reports present in agent filesystem as an attachment to release pipeline logs in Azure DevOps?

Question

A scan task of release pipeline in Azure DevOps generates the report and saves it to the local file system of agent. Is there any approach using which we can obtain the result report from the agent machine and access it directly from log attachments?

Answer 1

Yes, artifacts are not supported in a release pipeline as of now.

As per this thread regarding publishing/downloading artifacts in release pipelines, this feature has been proposed on the Developer Community.

For a workaround, if you wish, you can try third-party extension from the marketplace.

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You can use AddAttachment task command.

Usage

Upload and attach attachment to current timeline record. These files are not available for download with logs. These can only be referred to by extensions using the type or name values.

Properties

type = attachment type (Required) name = attachment name (Required)

Example

##vso[task.addattachment type=myattachmenttype;name=myattachmentname;]c:\myattachment.txt

Answer 2

Based on my understanding, artifacts are not supported in a release pipeline as of now. Few options that will come handy are:

• Copy or publish the reports to blob storage services from a cloud provider.
• Use 'Send Email' task to send the report as an attachment. To use this, an SMTP server has to be setup. Please find below URL for details: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rvo.SendEmailTask