The Deploy extension for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 provides automated deployment functionality through a Deploy build task for Microsoft TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), which is also known as Visual Studio Online.
The Deploy extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides automated deployment functionality through a Deploy build task for Microsoft TFS 2015, Microsoft TFS 2017, and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), which is also known as Visual Studio Online.
Before you start to use the Deploy plugin for Visual Studio Team Services, you must install the Deploy build task in your on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) or in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) server, which is also known as Visual Studio Online (VSO).
This topic describes using a CI tool plugin to interact with Deploy. However, as a preferred alternative starting with version 9.0, you can utilize a wrapper script to bootstrap XL CLI commands on your Unix or Windows-based Continuous Integration (CI) servers without having to install the XL CLI executable itself. The script is stored with your project YAML files and you can execute XL CLI commands from within your CI tool scripts. For details, see the following topics: