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TFS 2017: only allow manual deployment to PROD environment after release to DEV and QA

In TFS, say I have 3 environments in my release definition:

  1. DEV
  2. QA
  3. PROD

I only want TFS to permit manual deployment to PROD after successful deployments to DEV and QA.

I do not want the deployment to PROD to be automatic, and I do not want to use any approval mechanism.

How could I do this?

Solution

  • You can set the "Trigger" option for each environment:

    Select the environment in release definition >> Click "..." behind the environment name (eg, Dev) >> Deployment Conditions... >> Set the trigger option for each environment as following:

    • DEV : After release creation
    • QA : After successful deployment to another environment, select DEV for triggering environment(s).
    • PROD: No automated deployment

    But there isn't the option to disable approval mechanism. However you can set the Pre-deployment approver and Post-deployment approver as Automatic, thus the system will automatically approve the deployments.

    UPDATE:

    If you want to make promoting to DEV then QA mandatory first, Then we cannot achieve that as all the three environments are using the same artifacts in release.

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