Deployment builds - an alternative to tools like Octopus Deploy?
I saw this notice when 2017.2 was released: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD10/Deployment+Build+Configuration
Starting from version 2017.2, TeamCity provides the Deployment type of build configuration. Build configurations which perform deploying to some environment can be marked with this type: these are usually build configurations which have snapshot or artifact dependencies on the builds, whose results they deploy.
However, I haven't found more details about this feature. Is there any further documentation out there? Can you use this new deployment type to perform deployment tasks in the style of Octopus Deploy and similar tools?
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Hi Mattias,
This kind of build configurations simply set a number of different parameters to values different than normal, to ease the task of setting up deployments. More details here: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD10/Deployment+Build+Configuration
We do offer some deployers, such as ssh or ftp, docker, etc, but other than that, it's unlikely that we will replace a tool with a much larger scope such as octopus anytime soon. If you would like to have specific tasks, you can always ask more explicitly, and if they aren't available you can send us a feature request for it to our tracker: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/TW
Hi Denis,
Thanks for the feedback! Makes total sense.