Azure-pipelines-agent: TF_BUILD environment variable missing from container job

[gitfool]

Agent Version and Platform

Version of your agent? 2.144.0

OS of the machine running the agent? Linux; Ubuntu 16.04 with Docker

VSTS Type and Version

Azure Pipelines

What's not working?

Following up from https://github.com/cake-build/cake/issues/2432, the container job in Cake.Dungeon/azure-pipelines.yml#L6-L17 uses cake-build/cake and is not working as expected because the TF_BUILD environment variable has not been passed to the Docker container.

See Cake.Dungeon/#20190107.3/Docker job for all the build step environment variables, which have been logged as seen from inside the container. Note that the TF_BUILD environment variable is missing.

For comparison, Cake.Dungeon/#20190107.3/Linux job and Cake.Dungeon/#20190107.3/Windows job, are both run directly on the agent and see the TF_BUILD environment variable.

The TF_BUILD environment variable is required for Cake build to correctly detect if it is running on Azure Pipelines and affects subsequent build behavior such as only publishing artifacts when detected.

[TingluoHuang]

@gitfool thanks for reporting this. we will fix this.

[gitfool]

@TingluoHuang thanks for the fast turnaround! Any idea when it will be deployed? (I’m not sure if you’re continuously deploying to production.)

[TingluoHuang]

it's going to be part of next agent version release, but may take a while (2/3 weeks), since the current version haven't finish release to entire service due to holiday season deployment delay.

[gitfool]

FTR, workaround removed as fixed in azure pipelines agent 2.146.0 deployed ~Feb 6. Thanks again!