Questions tagged [release]
A release or releasing is the act of making features or bug fixes available for consumption. A release is not necessarily the same as a deployment, with the latter being the promotion of code into an environment, feature flags or toggles may be used to hide new functionality from consumers.
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Best artifactory type for Azure release pipeline
We've just started to use Azure DevOps platform and having some doubts regarding artifactory type for release pipeline. Here's the situation: we get complete delivery in zip file from Dev team which ...
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Best practice for building releases with Jenkins multibranch pipeline
We have started moving from Subversion to git (using Bitbucket, to be exact), and I'm unsure how to manage release builds with the multibranch concept. This is how we do it in Subversion: We have one ...
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Why should I tag a commit to create a release?
I work on a new CICD, replacing Jenkins-X 2 by GitHub Actions. After seeing a lot of actions to create a release + changelog, I found that a lot of them are trigger by a tag on a commit to launch the ...
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GUI over GitLab CI Environment Deployments With Multiple Instances?
Let's say I have a SaaS style project (similar to Databricks). We may make release 2.0.0 of this project, have automated testing and deployment to dev, automated promotion to nonprod, etc. In ...
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When to "npm publish" when using git flow
I'm using the following resources as a guide to git flow: git-flow cheatsheet git-flow Using git-flow to automate your git branching workflow However, none of them explicitly mention at what point you ...
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Git Release branching strategy for Continuous integration and deployment
We have tried multiple branching strategies to adopt CI/CD. Developers develop on the feature branch and then merging to master which get deployed to QA for testing and then master is deployed to ...
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Organizing the build steps on AzureDevOps
I am new on DevOps world and I am making my first build/release pipeline for a .net web application using Azure DevOps. On the picture bellow, I just add some build steps and create some tasks groups ...
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What is difference between release and deployment?
What is the basic difference between software release and deploy? What is the relation between software release management and continuous deployment?
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