Restore Maven packages with Azure Pipelines (YAML/Classic)

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2025-02-06

This article guides you through setting up your YAML and Classic pipelines to restore your Maven packages from internal and external feeds.

Prerequisites

Product	Requirements
Azure DevOps	- An Azure DevOps project. - An Azure Artifacts feed. - Permissions: - To grant access to all pipelines in the project, you must be a member of the Project Administrators group. - To create service connections, you must have the Administrator or Creator role for service connections.

Restore packages from a feed in the same organization

YAML
Classic

Select Pipelines, and then select your pipeline definition.

Select Edit, and then add the following snippet to your YAML pipeline.

steps:
- task: MavenAuthenticate@0
  displayName: 'Maven Authenticate'
  inputs:
    artifactsFeeds: 'YOUR_FEED_NAME'
- script: |
   mvn install

Select Pipelines, and then select your pipeline definition.

Select Edit, and then select the + sign to add a new task. Add the Maven Authenticate and Command line tasks to your pipeline definition and configure them as follows:
1. Maven Authenticate: Select one or multiple feeds from the Feeds dropdown menu.
2. Command line task:
  - Display name: Restore.
  - Script:
```
mvn install
```
Select Save & queue when you're done.

Restore packages from a feed in another organization

To restore your packages from a feed in another Azure DevOps organization, you must first create a personal access token in the target organization, and then create a service connection to authenticate with the target feed.

Create a Personal Access Token

Navigate to the target organization where the feed is hosted
Create a personal access token with Packaging > Read & write scope.
Copy your personal access token as you'll need it in the next step.

Create a Maven service connection

Sign in to the Azure DevOps organization where your pipeline will run, and then navigate to your project.
Navigate to Project settings > Service connections.
Select New service connection, select Maven, and then select Next.
Select Username and Password as the Authentication method, and then enter your Repository URL and your Repository Id.
Enter your Username (a placeholder, as Azure Pipelines will use your pom.xml and the personal access token you created earlier to authenticate). For Password, paste your personal access token.
Provide a Name for your service connection, and select Grant access permission to all pipelines.
Select Save when you're done.

Sign in to your Azure DevOps organization, and then navigate to your project.
Select Pipelines, and then select your pipeline definition.
Select Edit, and then add the following snippet to your YAML pipeline.

steps:
- task: MavenAuthenticate@0
  displayName: 'Maven Authenticate'
  inputs:
    MavenServiceConnections: <SERVICE_CONNECTION_NAME> 

- script: |
   mvn install
  displayName: 'Restore'

Select Pipelines, and then select your pipeline definition.

Select Edit, and then select the + sign to add a new task. Add the Maven Authenticate and Command line tasks to your pipeline definition and configure them as follows:
1. Maven Authenticate: Select your service connection from the Credentials for repositories outside this organization/collection dropdown menu.
2. Command line task:
  - Display name: Restore.
  - Script:
```
mvn install
```
Select Save & queue when you're done.

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