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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding and configuring environments in a release definition


A release definition is composed of a collection of environments. An environment is a logical container that holds information on where a release needs to be deployed and how it needs to be deployed. The environment can be a collection of server(s) on premises, in the cloud, multiple clouds, or an app store. The steps used to deploy the application on each environment can be the same or different. The deployment steps in an environment are described using tasks. In this recipe, you'll learn how to add and configure environments.

Getting ready

To edit a release definition, you need to be a member of the Release Administrators Group. These permissions are also available to the Project Administrators Group.

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team has a collection of servers categorized as development, QA, staging, and production environments. The Team wants the ability to deploy the application across all environments in a single release process...