Azure Devops Exception when not using ADO

[MarkRx]

In a locked down container environment (a security practice where all files are read only within a container and only volumes can be written to) a server fails to boot due to an ADO error even when not using ADO. It appears to be because ADO attempts to write ./azure-devops on during initialization.

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Fix could be to enhance the delayed exception handling to handle any exception then rethrow it here

traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/pr_agent/servers/bitbucket_server_webhook.py", line 15, in
from pr_agent.agent.pr_agent import PRAgent
File "/app/pr_agent/agent/pr_agent.py", line 10, in
from pr_agent.git_providers.utils import apply_repo_settings
File "/app/pr_agent/git_providers/init.py", line 9, in
from pr_agent.git_providers.azuredevops_provider import AzureDevopsProvider
File "/app/pr_agent/git_providers/azuredevops_provider.py", line 21, in
from azure.devops.connection import Connection
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/azure/devops/connection.py", line 9, in
from ._file_cache import RESOURCE_CACHE as RESOURCE_FILE_CACHE
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/azure/devops/_file_cache.py", line 128, in
DEFAULT_CACHE_DIR = get_cache_dir()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/azure/devops/_file_cache.py", line 118, in get_cache_dir
os.makedirs(azure_devops_cache_dir)
File "", line 215, in makedirs
File "", line 215, in makedirs
File "", line 225, in makedirs
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/.azure-devops'

[MarkRx]

Looks like I can workaround this by setting AZURE_DEVOPS_CACHE_DIR to a bogus volume that the execution user has write access to. code

[mrT23]

ok.

you are welcome to open a PR to update the documentation with this trick if you think its necessary
https://pr-agent-docs.codium.ai/installation/azure/#azure-devops-webhook