Buildstash Azure DevOps Extension

This Azure DevOps extension allows you to upload build artifacts to Buildstash.

Buildstash is a platform for software teams to manage all their past builds, organize, share with team members, and steer through to deployment or publishing.

Features

• Upload software builds, for any platform
• Attach associated metadata to builds - such as git commit, Azure Pipelines run data, etc
• Once stored in Buildstash, builds can be be powerfully organized, shared, and more

Installation

Install the extension to your Azure DevOps organization via the marketplace at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Buildstash.buildstash-tasks

Add the Buildstash upload task to your pipeline script, using the example below.

Add the application specific API key as a secret variable for your pipeline, with name BUILDSTASH_API_KEY.

Note: You will need to have an active Buildstash account and API key for your application, sign up at buildstash.com

Usage

Add the "Upload to Buildstash" task to your Azure DevOps pipeline:

- task: BuildstashUpload@1
    displayName: Upload to Buildstash
    inputs:
      apiKey: $(BUILDSTASH_API_KEY)
      structure: 'file'
      primaryFilePath: 'example.exe'
      versionComponent1Major: '1'
      versionComponent2Minor: '0'
      versionComponent3Patch: '1'
      versionComponentExtra: 'beta'
      versionComponentMeta: '2024.12.02'
      customBuildNumber: '12345'
      platform: 'windows'
      stream: 'default'

      # Optional CI info
      ciBuildDuration: '15m30s'

      # Optional VC info
      vcHostType: 'git'
      vcHost: 'github'
      vcRepoName: $(Build.Repository.Name)
      vcRepoUrl: $(Build.Repository.Uri)
      vcBranch: $(Build.SourceBranchName)
      vcCommitSha: $(Build.SourceVersion)
      vcCommitUrl: $(Build.Repository.Uri)/commit/$(Build.SourceVersion)

Input Parameters

Required

• Primary File Path: Path to the primary build artifact file to upload
• Structure: Structure type for the upload (file or file+expansion)
• API Key: Buildstash API key for authentication (should be passed in as a secret variable)

Optional

• Expansion File Path: Path to the optional expansion file to upload (can be used to upload Android .obb files with a primary .apk)
• Version Components: Major, minor, patch version components, with optional extra and meta components
• Custom Build Number: Custom build number, in any preferred format
• Version Control Information: Host type, host, repository details, branch, commit information
• Platform: Platform name (must exactly match platform slug attached to your app)
• Stream: Stream name (must exactly match)
• Notes: Optional build notes

Adjust Timeout

By default Azure DevOps will timeout jobs after 60 minutes.

This is probably fine, but if you are uploading a particularly massive build, or have a slow connection, you may wish to tweak this.

This is done on the job as below:

jobs:
- job: Test
  timeoutInMinutes: 60 # how long to run the job before automatically cancelling in minutes - increase if needed for large uploads

Refer to Azure docs for more detail.