Azure Build Pipeline for building Java Project using Maven using Self-hosted Linux Build agent | How to Build a Java Project using Azure Build Agent

Building pipelines in Azure DevOps is really easy, you can migrate your web applications from any where into Azure Cloud by using Azure pipelines.

Pre-requisites:

• Azure subscription
• Java WebApp setup in GitHub (Sample Java WebApp can be referenced from my GitHub Repo)
• Azure DevOps account
• Create service connection to GitHub in ADO. 
• Setup build agent in Azure Devops

Create Azure Build YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps

Login to Azure DevOps organization, go to your project dashboard.

Click on Pipelines --> new pipeline

Select GitHub or where ever your source code is 

Select your code repo

Choose Maven option as below for automating Build of Java Web App

Now Review Azure pipeline code

Modify per below, add pool name

pool: Ubuntu18-VM-Pool

steps:

- task: Maven@3

inputs:

mavenPomFile: 'MyWebApp/pom.xml'

publishJUnitResults: true

testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'

goals: 'package'

Save and Click on Run

Now you will see pipeline will be running on agent