Sunday 29 June 2014

11. Create a Release Build - Setup Virtual Environment for TFS 2013 - Using Virtualbox

In this step of ALM demo environment (Virtual Environment for TFS 2013), I am going to explain how to create a Release Build to build the website we have created in “Create a Simple Application and a CI Build”.
First step is to setup a drop location for our Virtual Environment for TFS 2013. For this we will use the build server we created in “Setup a Build Server”.

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We have to give permission to TFS Build Service account (we have setup in “Setup a Build Server”), full control for the drop folder, in order to create build outputs

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Let’s share this folder for read access for everyone.

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Verify access from the development machine.

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Now we are going to clone the CI Build which was setup in “Create a Simple Application and a CI Build”.

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Let’s rename the build definition.

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Change the trigger of this build to manual.

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Set the build drop location.

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We are going to keep all successful builds (We need to keep these builds outputs and details as long as required and manually archive whenever necessary).

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We are now done with the build definition. (We have changed nothing in the process tab. It is as same as the CI build setup in “Create a Simple Application and a CI Build”.)

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Let’s queue a release build.

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Build starts to run.

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Once the build is done, we can see the output in the build drop location.

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We can find the site created in “Create a Simple Application and a CI Build”, published in to BuildDrop\_PublishedWebsites.
I will conclude the series Virtual Environment for TFS 2013 with this post. Do not worry, as promised when I started this series of posts, I will continue to explain VS 2013 Release Management as a new series using Virtual Environment for TFS 2013.

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