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Azure CDN not updating after deployment – Azure

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Hey everyone,

I’ve setup a deployment pipeline for the JellyWidgets.com react app that I’m currently messing around on. Unfortunately, while the deployment appeared to be successful it the CDN wasn’t updating.

This turned out to be a fairly simply fix – I needed to purge the cache after each deployment. This can be done manually using the Azure portal:

Simply click the purge button on your CDN’s profile page. For a more permanent fix you can also setup a pipeline step like the following:

      - task: AzureCLI@2
        displayName: 'Purge the CDN.'
        inputs:
          azureSubscription: $(azureSubscription)
          scriptType: 'pscore'
          scriptLocation: 'inlineScript'
          inlineScript: 'az cdn endpoint purge --resource-group widgets-prod --name $(resourceGroup) --profile-name JellyWidgets --content-paths "/*" --no-wait'
          workingDirectory: '$(Build.SourcesDirectory)/UI/infrastructure'
          failOnStandardError: true

Note that if you don’t add the “no-wait” step it can take a long time for the purge to complete.

See the following urls for more info:

The current operating system is not capable of running this task. That typically means the task was written for Windows only. For example, written for Windows Desktop PowerShell. – AzureFileCopy@4

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Hi everyone,

I am currently setting up an azure pipeline to deploy a ReactApp to a Blob storage container. I was a bit surprised when I hit the following error with an Ubuntu pool:

Task         : Azure file copy
Description  : Copy files to Azure Blob Storage or virtual machines
Version      : 4.184.1
Author       : Microsoft Corporation
Help         : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/deploy/azure-file-copy
==============================================================================
##[error]The current operating system is not capable of running this task. That typically means the task was written for Windows only. For example, written for Windows Desktop PowerShell.
##[debug]System.InvalidOperationException: The current operating system is not capable of running this task. That typically means the task was written for Windows only. For example, written for Windows Desktop PowerShell.
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.TaskRunner.RunAsync()
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.Agent.Worker.StepsRunner.RunStepAsync(IStep step, CancellationToken jobCancellationToken)

I did a quick search in the task lists and couldn’t find anything specifically for Linux. A bit of Googling brought up an open Github thread stating that there currently isn’t a built in task to address this issue.

The next best alternative is to use the AzureCli task and invoke it that way:

- task: AzureCLI@1
    displayName: Deploy the UI
    inputs:
      azureSubscription: $(azureSubscription)
      scriptLocation: inlineScript
      inlineScript: |
        az storage blob upload-batch \
          --destination \$web \
          --account-name "$(storageAccountName)" \
          --source "$(Agent.BuildDirectory)/$(outputDir)"

I’ve linked the GitHub issue below. It has a few alternatives to this task as well so worth reading if you’re having issues: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/issues/8920#issuecomment-640596461