[FIXED] How do you organise 1 VS Team Services release definition for separate app and db deployment?

Issue

I have 2 different Visual Studio solutions. 1 for my asp.net web application and 1 for my database (dacpac). I have included the required deployment tasks under 1 release definition in order to publish my web app and database at the same time.

Now, I would like to have more flexibility and do the following; 1) Release web and db at the same time. 2) Release only web. 3) Release only db.

I do not want to create 3 separate release definitions to avoid any duplication and re-use the defined tasks as much as possible.

How could you achieve this?

Solution

You'll need to create different release definitions for each combo, there's no way around that. However, you can use task groups to create reusable groups of tasks related to each deployment.

Answered By - Daniel Mann

Answer Checked By - Pedro (PHPFixing Volunteer)