Azure-devops-docs: Examples of Service Containers do not work

[patvin80]

I picked the sample above and pasted it in a pipeline, but was not able to execute the pipeline. The error I get when I use the nginx and redis pipeline is when the apt get command is run.

[command]/bin/bash --noprofile --norc /home/vsts/work/_temp/683b6fb6-dbe3-4dea-a205-d102ee22e8bf.sh

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
/home/vsts/work/_temp/683b6fb6-dbe3-4dea-a205-d102ee22e8bf.sh: line 2: psql: command not found

On changing the command to run as sudo, the challenge is Ubuntu 16 onwards does not have sudo installed and since apt-get does not work cannot install it either. As a workaround I am using the vsts ubuntu 14.04 image but that increases the build time.

The documentation needs to be corrected or please identify if I am doing something wrong.

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• ID: 7d1c794c-d676-fc7e-758e-3464f16a1554
• Version Independent ID: 941de04a-2d34-ec82-8612-00e4070de673
• Content: Service Containers - Azure Pipelines & TFS
• Content Source: docs/pipelines/process/service-containers.md
• Product: devops
• Technology: devops-cicd
• GitHub Login: @thomps23
• Microsoft Alias: dakale

[andyjlewis]

@thomps23 please assign to @dakale

[wlongxiang]

I got the same problem here

[masaori]

It seems that I can define 'services' only under 'jobs' according to the document about YAML schema ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/yaml-schema?view=azure-devops&tabs=schema#server )
So I think those examples in this article don't work in the first place. (Actually, it didn't on my env.)

How did you guys write your .yml?

[azizaitali]

The following didn't work for me:

resources:
containers:

• container: sql
  image: mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server
  ports:
  
  
  
  • 8080:80
    
    env:
    
    SA_PASSWORD: "*"
    
    ACCEPT_EULA: "Y"
  
  
• container: api
  image: my-api:latest
  ports:
  
  
  
  • 8080:80
    
    env:
    
    connectionString: "Server=tcp:sql,1433;Initial Catalog=my-db;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=sa;Password=*;MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Connection Timeout=30;"
    
    services:
    
    sql: sql
    
    api: api
    
    pool:
    
    vmImage: 'ubuntu-16.04'
    
    steps:
  
  
  • script: |
    
    ping localhost -c 10
    
    curl localhost:8080
  
  

[orionstudt]

The container job example does not work because the ubuntu container is not running as root user so you can't run apt-get. It would be nice if the examples were valid

[cxwtool]

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[3noch]

The documentation is still wrong.