How to invoke powershell script in Azure Vm

[Rajkumar-21]

In Build Yaml pipeline I'm getting vm and resource group as parameters to the task named- azurepowershell@5 and using file path mapping to powershell script where it as commands to fetch vm details and vmsize,etc.

So in next azurepowershell@5 task, I'm trying to invoke-azvmruncommand and for the argument i need to give some powershell script file where it stored in azure repo. Im getting error name/path/file are wrong like that.

As per my understanding, pipeline running on the Microsoft agent we can get info using task and script file, but when I need to invoke command, is any command is working in the vm but for mapping script file, the path must be the path of vm local not file from repo/agent Machine path.

This was I used:

Invoke-AzVMRunCommand -ResourceGroupName 'rgname' -VMName 'vmname' -CommandId 'RunPowerShellScript' -ScriptPath '$(Source.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\sample.ps1'

May i know approach to run the script file where the source of the script is azure repo and destination where the script to run is inside azure vm(Not in Microsoft agent)

[isra-fel]

Hey @rajkumar welcome to the discussions!
As you said, Invoke-AzVMRunCommand only supported script files local to VM, so the general idea should be to download the script then invoke it.

• Use Invoke-WebRequest to download the script.
  • Authentication may be required depending on where the script is hosted.
• Depending on the what you are trying to do in the script, you may also face permission challenages on Azure VM.

[Rajkumar-21]

This is looks like additional steps to setup where below is my scenario
Scenario: I have powershell script in Azure Repo, using Azure Yaml pipeline, I writing pipeline, in the task i want to execute the script file which i stored in my repo, how it will pass those file to one of the argument of the -scriptpath of the 'Invoke-AzVMRunCommand'

Note: Using releasepipeline I used the powershell task where im able to pass the scriptpath from the repo it is working(-scriptpath '$(Source.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\script.ps1'), but in YAML type pipeline it is not working while it is not having the feature.

[heinejeppesen]

I also use Invoke-AzVMRunCommand from a build pipeline and it works just fine here.

Are you sure the variable is called Source.DefaultWorkingDirectory ? Maybe try System.DefaultWorkingDirectory?

I use Build.SourcesDirectory and it works great from my pipelines.
-ScriptPath $(Build.SourcesDirectory)<what-ever-folder>\MyScript.ps1