Azure DevOps Pipelines "Waiting for console output from an agent..."

Question

I require something from the output of a running release task in order for it to complete (an authenticate code). But the console is now not updating. All I get is "Waiting for console output from an agent..."

This happens on both our self-hosted agents (Linux or Windows) and on the Hosted Ubuntu 1604 agent.

The step in question is the standard Kubernetes task: https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/tree/master/Tasks/KubernetesV1

This was not always happening.

Answer 1

To rule out the possibility of kubectl awaiting console input (as has been discussed above), you could try

kubectl apply --dry-run=client [other args]

or

kubectl apply --dry-run=server [other args]

This could give you guidance as to how to proceed, perhaps with --force or --overwrite flags if needed.