Pipeline deployment for copying files between windows servers (self-hosted)

Question

Hi all,

I am doing PoC on the pipeline under windows env (self.hosted at the moment).

Understanding we can use atlassian/scp-deploy for scp'ing the files to other servers, however, my current PoC env is running Windows and don't have scp.

It there some ways to just copying files without the need for scp?

Thank you very much.

Theodora Boudale · Answer

You are very welcome, please feel free to reach out if you need anything else!

Chin Wang Cheung · Answer

thank you very much.

Theodora Boudale · Answer

Hi Jeremy,

Pipes cannot be used with self-hosted Windows runners, as these runners do not use Docker containers.

Windows Runners use PowerShell to run pipeline steps on your Windows machine (host device), so the commands in your yml file's script are PowerShell commands. So, what you need is a way to copy files using PowerShell.

You can check some of the suggestions in the following StackOverflow post:

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10741609/copy-file-remotely-with-powershell

You can try it first on PowerShell (without a runner), and if you have a command that works then you can use it in your yml file with the runner.

Kind regards,
Theodora