Install dependencies
Important: Boot using the root account
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| dnf update -y
dnf install git -y
rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
dnf install dotnet-sdk-2.1 -y
# Update package reference, otherwise you'll get the 6.0 RC version
rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/centos/8/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
echo 'priority=50' | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo
dnf install dotnet-sdk-6.0 -y
dnf install dotnet-sdk-7.0 -y
dnf install aspnetcore-runtime-7.0 -y
dnf install dotnet-runtime-7.0 -y
dnf module enable nodejs:18
dnf install nodejs -y
# Add Mono Repo
dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.mono-project.com/repo/centos8-stable.repo
dnf install mono-complete -y
yum install -y powershell
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Build Agent
Add build user
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| useradd buildagent
passwd buildagent
usermod -aG wheel buildagent
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Download agent
Microsoft article
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| wget https://vstsagentpackage.azureedge.net/agent/2.204.0/vsts-agent-linux-x64-2.204.0.tar.gz
mkdir /build
cd /build
tar zxvf ~/vsts-agent-linux-x64-2.204.0.tar.gz
cd ..
chown -R buildagent:buildagent ./build
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| su -l buildagent
cd /build
./config.sh
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Run agent to test
Run agent as a service
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| su -l buildagent
cd /build
./svc.sh install
./svc.sh start
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Install Chrome browser for Web UI testing
Stack overflow link
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| wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/100.0.4896.20/chromedriver_linux64.zip
mkdir /chrome
cd /chrome
unzip ~/chromedriver_linux64.zip
./chromedriver --version
cd ~
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
cd /nas
cd build
./svc.sh stop
./svc.sh start
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Enable the build agent to deploy SQL scripts
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| sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/msprod.repo https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/8/prod.repo```
sudo yum remove unixODBC-utf16 unixODBC-utf16-devel
sudo yum install mssql-tools unixODBC-devel
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| echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
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To execute as part of build
/opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd -S servername,1433 -U yourusername -P 'your password' -d databasename -i script.sql
Potential errors
The user’s home directory could not be determined. Set the ‘DOTNET_CLI_HOME’ environment variable to specify the directory to use.
Solution
Add Environment=DOTNET_CLI_HOME=/tmp to the service file automatically created.
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| systemctl daemon-reload
./svc.sh stop
./svc.sh start
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