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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook Over 80 hands-on DevOps and ALM-focused recipes for Scrum Teams to enable the Continuous Delivery of high-quality Software... Faster!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784391058
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tarun Arora Tarun Arora
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Preface 1. Team Project Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories 3. Planning and Tracking Work 4. Building Your Application 5. Testing Your Application 6. Releasing Your Application 7. Managing Team Foundation Server 8. Extending and Customizing Team Foundation Server Index

Using user capabilities to identify a build agent in a pool


It is not uncommon to have specialized build agents for specific builds. For example, an application may have dependency on SharePoint SDK. A build agent can be stood up to cater for builds that have such dependencies. The new build system introduces the concept of capabilities. Capabilities, in their most basic form, are a collection of key value pairs used to recognize the abilities of a build server. A build that requires a specific ability for its execution can be routed to a relevant build agent by referring to these key/value pairs. A build agent supports both system and user capabilities. System capabilities are a list of software frameworks already available on the build agent. They are generated by the build agent. User capabilities can be manually added to a build agent; this is a useful way to tag on a key value pair to recognize a build agent. In this recipe, you'll learn how to add a user capability to a build agent...

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