Azure-storage-azcopy: old azcopy version in azure pipelines hosted pool

[Hazmes]

Which version of the AzCopy was used?

azcopy 7.3.0-netcore Copyright (c) 2018 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved.

Note: The version is visible when running AzCopy without any argument

Which platform are you using? (ex: Windows, Mac, Linux)

pool: vmImage: 'Ubuntu-16.04'

What command did you run?

azcopy

Note: Please remove the SAS to avoid exposing your credentials. If you cannot remember the exact command, please retrieve it from the beginning of the log file.

What problem was encountered?

Old Version of azcopy in hosted ubuntu agent on azure pipelines

azcopy 7.3.0-netcore Copyright (c) 2018 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved.
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# azcopy is designed for high-performance uploading, downloading, and copying
data to and from Microsoft Azure Blob, and File storage.

# Command Line Usage:
    azcopy --source <source> --destination <destination> [options]

# Options:
    [--source-key] [--dest-key] [--source-sas] [--dest-sas] [--verbose] [--resume] 
    [--config-file] [--quiet] [--parallel-level] [--source-type] [--dest-type] 
    [--recursive] [--include] [--check-md5] [--dry-run] [--preserve-last-modified-time]
    [--exclude-newer] [--exclude-older] [--sync-copy] [--set-content-type] [--blob-type] 
    [--delimiter] [--include-snapshot] [--block-size-in-mb]

How can we reproduce the problem in the simplest way?

Make a pipeline and run azcopy

Have you found a mitigation/solution?

update azcopy on hosted ubuntu agent image
Or keep multiple version if backwards compatibility is needed, e.g. azcopy-7.3, azcopy10, ...

[zezha-msft]

Hi @Hazmes, thanks for reaching out! And we really appreciate the feedback.

@rishabpoh could you please follow up with the appropriate channel to get them to upgrade the version of azcopy in hosted Ubuntu agents?

[jolauMSFT]

@rishabpoh
This is also a problem for Ubuntu 18.04

[fabianallendorf]

Is this issue still being tracked?

[JohnRusk]

I've make some enquiries internally, but responses may be delayed due to the holiday season.

[JohnRusk]

And I see Rishab is actively following up with the relevant team (but again, responses may be delayed due to the holiday season).

[rishabpoh]

Hi @fabianallendorf, I am tracking this issue and I have noted that this issue exists for 16.04 and 18.04. I am waiting for a response from the internal team and will post an update here as soon as possible.

[rishabpoh]

Update: This is now being worked on with an eta of ~1 month until deployment. I will post a final update upon completion.

[juergstaub-swissre]

Hi, I see that azcopy 7.3.0-netcore is still installed on Ubuntu 18.04. Any plan when you update the agents?

[TomaBusarov]

Hi, any progress on this in the last 5 months? Having standalone AzCopy (not part of the AzureFileCopy task) could be useful if you want to copy/update files on storage account where subscription is not within your control.

[JohnRusk]

@amishra-dev and @rishabpoh