vm behind proxy and module installation by pipeline task

Question

A windows vm is configured that is residing the proxy and I can get the response from the VM's admin powershell prompt with the following command:

Get-PSRepository

But if I issue the very same command inside the Azure Devops pipeline I get the following instead:

WARNING: MSG:UnableToDownload «https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409» «»
WARNING: Unable to download the list of available providers. Check your internet connection.
WARNING: Unable to find module repositories.
Finishing: PowerShell

I can check and get the proxy settings though from the powershell in the pipeline with the following command:

netsh winhttp show proxy

Hi @sajis997 Did you try setting the proxy for your powershell task as below answer pointed out. how did it go? — Levi Lu-MSFT, Feb 02 '20 at 15:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '20 at 03:56

I guess you are hosting a self-host agent on the windows VM. Some tools will not automatically use the agent configured proxy settings as stated in the document Run a self-hosted agent behind a web proxy.

You can try setting an environmental variable as below at the beginning of the your powershell command to specifically set the proxy for your powershell task.

$env:http_proxy = "192.3.4.5:8080"

Please refer to this similar thread. If above script to set proxy env variable doesnot work, you can try command Set-InternetProxy -Proxy test:8080 in this blog.

vm behind proxy and module installation by pipeline task

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