On the request of our Linux customers, we have shipped a new SSH build task that allows running commands or scripts on a Remote server. This task is available on Visual Studio Team Services and will be available in the next release of Team Foundation Server for our on-premises customers.

Using the task is simple. You specify your SSH connection information in an SSH service endpoint, ensure the public key is setup on the Remote Machine and provide a script with your deployment or configuration steps to run on the remote machine. The task also allows specifying commands directly instead of a script file.

Checkout the documentation and demo video!

Try it out and let us know if you have any feedback on our GitHub repository.

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