Your application gets integrated continuously and you have already seen some great benefits, such as detecting and fixing bugs and issues much faster. Let's not stop there; improving your development process even further is much easier than you think!
We will now see how to adopt the continuous deployment of your application by creating a VSTS release pipeline:
- Open the VSTS website, click on
Build & Release
in the upper menu, click onReleases
and then on theNew definition
button, and select theEmpty
definition template:
- You can now select the
Project
and theSource (Build definition)
and enable the continuous deployment, then click on theCreate
button:
- The release definition gets created and you can see it in the list:
The shown sample release definition does not really do very much for now. We will see a much more advanced version later that deploys to Azure, in the corresponding Azure chapters.