[Question]: How to order Post-Jobs in a build pipeline?

[RainerMuehlberger]

Describe your question

Hello,

for cleaning static agent purposes after a run we are using a self implemented task "Post Build Cleanup" with "postjobexecution" property to configure the task automatically into the post-job section of a build pipeline.

Now we realize that this task creates issues with a automatically created Post-Job: "nuget pipeline cache" which cannot work anymore because it is executed after the cleaning task. The "nuget pipeline cache" task must be executed before the cleaning task.

My question is: Do I have the possibility to change the order of the post-jobs? And when yes, where could I change this?

Thank you very much.

Greetings,
Rainer

Versions

• Azure DevOps Services
• Agent Version '3.232.1'

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• VMSS Pool
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Azure DevOps Server type

dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

Operation system

Windows Server 2019 Standard

Version controll system

git

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

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[aleksandrlevochkin]

Hi @RainerMuehlberger thank you for the question. If my understanding is correct, the post-jobs steps are executed in reverse order compared to the placements of tasks in a pipeline, judging by this code.
I think to fix your issue the definition of the "Post Build Cleanup" task should be placed before the "nuget pipeline cache" task in the pipeline.