Question

You maintain a multi-stage YAML pipeline in Azure Pipelines. The 'Build' stage compiles the application and publishes the output. A later 'Deploy' stage runs on a separate agent and must consume exactly the artifact produced by the 'Build' stage of the same pipeline run. You want the artifact to be retrieved automatically without adding an explicit download task, using the recommended modern pipeline artifact approach. Which configuration achieves this?

Accepted Answer

Use the 'PublishPipelineArtifact' task in Build and a deployment job in Deploy; the current pipeline artifacts download automatically at the start of the deployment job.

Answer

Use the 'PublishBuildArtifacts' task in Build and manually add a 'DownloadBuildArtifacts' task at the beginning of the Deploy stage.

Answer

Publish the artifact to Azure Artifacts as a Universal Package and restore it with a 'UniversalPackages' task in Deploy.

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Store the compiled output in a pipeline variable in Build and reference the variable expression in the Deploy stage.