I have an Azure DevOps pipeline which I want to start a long running test. I only want to start it and not wait for the results. (test will for example be a performance test running over the weekend).

What I want to achieve is that when I RDP onto the VM with the azure pipeline agent running, I will see the scripts that I have started.

What I have: run-stresstest.ps1 which starts another long running powershell script (my-tool.ps1)

My yml file:

  - task: CmdLine@2
    displayName: 'Run stress tests'
    inputs:
      script: |
        cd /d c:StressTest
        set VSTS_PROCESS_LOOKUP_ID=
        start powershell.exe c:StressTestrun-stresstest.ps1

My launcher ps1 script: run-stresstest.ps1

    Start-Process PowerShell -ArgumentList "-noexit", "-File ./my-tool.ps1" | Out-Default

So what I am missing is to see the window in where the script my-tool.ps1 is running. I’d like to see the output and be able to interact with it if needed.

Now I don’t see anything, but I see that that my-tool.ps1 is running in the process manager.

I used the logic of Child process of an Azure DevOps task is killed when the job stops to prevent my scripts/processes to be killed automatically by devops after completing the task.

Environment:

• Selfhosted windows azure pipeline agent (running as user)