Run Azurite with Azure DevOps Pipelines on windows image

Question

I'm trying to run and connect to azurite from Azure DevOps pipelines. This is how my pipeline looks like

trigger:
  - '*'

stages:
  - stage: 'test'
    displayName: 'test'
    jobs:
     - job: 'Build_job'
       displayName: 'Build job'
       pool:
         vmImage: 'windows-2022'
       steps:
              
          - task: NodeTool@0
            displayName: 'Use Node.js'
            inputs:
              versionSpec: '16.*'

          - task: PowerShell@2
            displayName: 'Install and launch Azurite'
            inputs:
              targetType: 'inline'
              script: |
                npm install -g azurite 
                mkdir c:/azurite
                Start-Job -ScriptBlock { azurite --silent --location c:\azurite --debug c:\azurite\debug.log  }
              pwsh: true

          - task: PowerShell@2
            displayName: 'Check Azurite availability'
            inputs:
              targetType: 'inline'
              script: |
                curl 127.0.0.1:10000
                curl localhost:10000
              pwsh: true

It fails on the availability check.

The same pipeline works fine on the ubuntu image, but my project has some dependencies on Windows. How can I connect to azurite on windows image?

Answer 1

As you use the shared Microsoft windows agent you cannot perform ports connectivity as it is prohibited from Microsoft for these resources. You will need to install the tooling on a private agent to perform the same tasks.

You can verify this by taking the output from.netstat about listening ports.

netstat -ano | findstr "LISTENING"

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