How to set up az cli concrete version in Azure DevOps

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After last updates of Azure DevOps our pipelines stopped working.
I am using AZURE CLI tasks.
Investigation shows that az cli was updated to 2.2.0, but nothing was changed on our side.

/usr/bin/az --version
azure-cli                          2.2.0

And some az cli operations starts to print warnings.
Warnings by default are redirected in bash to error stream, so I end up with:

Error: The process '/bin/bash' failed because one or more lines were written to the STDERR stream

How to set up concrete version of az cli for my pipelines?
I want pipelines to be stable with Azure DevOps updates.

azure-cli azure-devops azure bash
3 Answers

When working with Azure DevOps Hosted agents, Some software's installed on the machine automatically. The full list can be found here Ubuntu.

One of the Softwares is Azure CLI:Latest. Therefore, in case you want to downgrade you need to install a new version. The repo is removed after the initial installation so you will need to re-add that first:

AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $AZ_REPO main" |
 sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list

AZ_VERSION=2.2.0
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

sudo apt install -y --allow-downgrades azure-cli=$AZ_VERSION-1~$UBUNTU_CODENAME
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How to set up az cli concrete version in Azure DevOps

To resolve the error, please try to run the task again with the option "Fail on Standard Error" unchecked:

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Besides, I am afraid there is no such out of box way to set up concrete version of az cli. Neither can I install an old version in an agent that already has the latest version az cli, either through python commands or chocolate packages:

python commands:

pip install --pre azure-cli --extra-index-url https://azurecliprod.blob.core.windows.net/edge

This command line only install the latest version of az cli. Since I do not have the old version url, I could not test if it works with python command to install the old version az ci when there is a latest version already installed.

Then I test it by the chocolatey package:

https://chocolatey.org/packages/azure-cli/2.1.0#individual

choco install azure-cli --version=2.1.0 --force

But, this installation command still fails due to the existence of a latest version package.

Check this thread for some more details.

Alternatively, you could set up private agent to build your project, and install the old version azure-cli by the choco package.

Hope this helps.

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