Updating Node in the Azure Pipelines agent

[JuergenRB]

As Microsoft explains here the pipelines are being moved to Node 10. The hints in the pipeline also already appear.

A guide for the changeover can be found here.
Since it wasn't too complicated, I started an implementation of the guide.

[mitoihs]

Could someone merge-capable merge it? @gep13 could you please?

[m-soltani]

This issue still persists and since Node 6 has reach of EoL, I am interested to know If they are plans to update task's node version

[devlead]

ATM the plan is probably to depreciate this extension as it's based on the old Cake.exe which is no longer supported.

The recommended way instead would be to use Cake.Tool and pin its version using a .NET tool manifest, all need to bootstrap Cake then would be an Azure Pipelines yaml like below

jobs:
  - job:
    steps:
    - script: |
        dotnet tool restore
        dotnet cake --target=AzurePipelines
      displayName: Run Cake Script

The above assumes you've got a target called AzurePipelines.

Make sure to have a tool manifest available in your repository or create one using the following command in repo root:

dotnet new tool-manifest

Install Cake as a local tool using the dotnet tool command:

dotnet tool install Cake.Tool --version 5.0.0

You can replace 5.0.0 with a different version of Cake you want to use.

[m-soltani]

ATM the plan is probably to depreciate this extension as it's based on the old Cake.exe which is no longer supported.

The recommended way instead would be to use Cake.Tool and pin its version using a .NET tool manifest, all need to bootstrap Cake then would be an Azure Pipelines yaml like below

jobs:
  - job:
    steps:
    - script: |
        dotnet tool restore
        dotnet cake --target=AzurePipelines
      displayName: Run Cake Script

The above assumes you've got a target called AzurePipelines.

Make sure to have a tool manifest available in your repository or create one using the following command in repo root:

dotnet new tool-manifest

Install Cake as a local tool using the dotnet tool command:

dotnet tool install Cake.Tool --version 5.0.0

You can replace 5.0.0 with a different version of Cake you want to use.

I would still would wait to see if the implementation details like above can be masked by developing/upgrading the Cake@2 version. otherwise, this would be something that our internal team needs to implement.