Continuous integration - creating a build definition
A build definition is a set of tasks that are required to configure an automated build of your software. In this recipe, we will perform the following.
- Create the Build definition template.
- Provide all the inputs required for each of the steps for creating the build definition
How to do it...
- Navigate to the
Builds & Releasetab in your VSTS account and click onNew Definitionto start the process of creating a new build definition.
- You will be taken to the
Select a templatestep, where you can choose the required template for your required application. For this recipe, we will chooseASP.NET Core (.NET Framework), as shown here, by clicking on theApplybutton:
- The
Create buildstep is a set of steps used to define the build template. As shown in the following screen capture, the build definition has six steps, where each step has certain attributes that we need to review and provide inputs for each of those fields based on our requirements...
