
But running the following command (in the context of the user in question) populated the required key and the TeamCity build agent was able to start. In my case, the second key was missing, for some reason.

Teamcity builds how to#
Here are a few short examples of how to make TC builds tighter, and repeatable. This could lead to a variation of problems.

Because of that its relatively easy to make mistakes, so your builds are not consistent, nor repeatable.
Teamcity builds code#
The error message arises when the wrapper starts up, it pulls all the environment variables from the registry and injects them into the current context for the wrapped-application ( source code with error message here). TeamCity (TC), like many CI tools, is very powerful and flexible. It seems the TeamCity Build Agent is kicked off by the open-source Java Service Wrapper by Tanuki. There were no files created in C:\BuildAgent\logs, but in C:\BuildAgent\launcher\bin\wrapper.log I found the following error message: FATAL | wrapper | 3 18:00:08 | Unable to access registry to obtain environment variables - The operation completed successfully. No files are produced in the C:\BuildAgent\logs directory, so I don't think the process is even starting at all. Using this extension, you can watch for Ant tasks, modify/patch them and log various messages to the build log. This extension works in the same JVM where Ant is running. There is nothing in event log except success audits for the account logging in and out, and the service failed to start error (with no further details, exit codes, or stack traces). The TeamCity Ant runner, while being a plugin itself, can also be extended with the help of .AntTaskExtension. The domain account is granted the 'Log on as a service' local security policy.The domain account is added to the local Administrators group.
Teamcity builds password#

It will delete any existing node_modules folder to ensure a consistent restoration of all dependencies and is guaranteed to never write to package.json or any lock files. If everything matches up then it will restore from the lock file instead without having to do any dependency resolution. If there is a mismatch it will fail with an error instead of trying to create a new lock file. Some searching revealed the existence of the npm ci command, documented here.ĭesigned specifically for test, continuous integration and continuous deployment environments it will mostly ignore package.json, only checking that it matches what is in package-lock.json (or package-shrinkwrap.json).
Teamcity builds install#
Running npm install was taking over 7 minutes to complete!

This quickly becomes unfeasible when you have a number of projects, with multiple branches and a non-infinite number of available build agents.Įxamining the build logs quickly revealed the bottleneck. Recently I noticed that project build times were getting longer and longer in work, taking up to 15 minutes to build and unit test an intranet solution.
