Follow the below steps to upload this task to your account:
- Download the tasks repo as [zip file] or clone it using git:
- Extract the zip file of the desired task
- Open command prompt and navigate to the folder that contains a json and powershell files.
*Follow instructions on how to upload the task using - https://github.com/Microsoft/tfs-cli/blob/master/docs/buildtasks.md or use the below instructions.
- Install
tfx-cliutility
> npm install -g tfx-cli
- To avoid providing credentials in every command, you can login once. Currently supported credential types are Personal Access Tokens and basic auth. Create a personal access token and paste it in the login command
> tfx login
Copyright Microsoft Corporation
Enter collection url > https://youraccount.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection
Enter personal access token >
logged in successfully
You can alternatively use basic auth by passing --authType basic (read Configuring Basic Auth).
- Upload the task to your account:
> tfx build tasks upload --task-path ./task
- Once the task is uploaded, you would be able to view your task under the build or release.