Synapse - 'node' is not recognized as an command

Case
I want to deploy a Synapse workspace via DevOps and the Synapse workspace deployment addon, but it is giving me an error: Stderr: 'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How do I solve this error?

Node not known in DevOps

Solution
Just like with the deployment of Data Factory this add on also uses node.js to do the actual deployment. If you are using a self-hosted agent then you need to install node.js on your DevOps agent (VM) or use the Node.js Tool Installer task before the Synapse Workspace Deployment task.

NodeTool@0

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# 2 Installs Node.js on agent
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- task: NodeTool@0
  displayName: '3 Install Node.js'
  inputs:
    versionSpec: '16.x'
    checkLatest: true  

Conclusion

In this short post you learned how to overcome the unrecognized node command in your DevOps Deployment pipeline. A simple manual installation of node.js or an automated installation via your CICD pipeline will do the trick.

Also see our posts of setting up Synapse and DevOps and creating the YAML pipeline.

Please note that you need to keep your node.js version up-to-date to avoid new error in your pipeline.