Azure App Service - Install .msi using Azure DevOps Pipeline or Kudu terminal

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Need to install LibreOffice to my Azure App Service.

1. Azure DevOps

  • I used powershell Start-Process to silent install but getting Permission denied.
Start-Process: /home/vsts/work/_temp/5cc8c99d-ed13-4b1b-823b-3cd9b56fdd1b.ps1:5
Line |
   5 |  Start-Process /home/vsts/work/1/s\LibreOffice_7.4.0_Win_x64.msi -Argu …
     |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | An error occurred trying to start process
     | '/home/vsts/work/1/s/LibreOffice_7.4.0_Win_x64.msi' with
     | working directory '/home/vsts/work/1/s'. Permission denied

2. Kudu terminal

  • Getting Access Denied error when trying to run Start-Process manually.

Are there any alternatives to achieve this?

libreoffice permission-denied azure-appservice powershell azure
1 Answers

Not possible to install something on the host. The alternative is to use a docker container which has it already installed.

https://azure.github.io/AppService/windows-containers/

App Service supports Windows Containers! Deploying your application in a Windows Container enables you to bring along dependencies such as custom fonts, cultures and GAC deployed assemblies. When deploying a containerized application, the Windows Container is an isolation and security boundary. As a result, calls to libraries that would normally be blocked by the Azure App Service will instead succeed when running inside of a Windows Container.

Alex AIT0
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