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san web
san web

Reputation: 43

What is actual TFS 2018 Build server configuration ? If i complete agent installation will that be considered as build server?

I have installed TFS 2018 and I'm trying to setup dedicated build server for this.

I have three windows servers one for TFS-WindowsBox1(TFS 2018 Installation completed), one for Build server-WindowsBox2(Build server setup steps and architecture needed), DB-WindowsBox3(DB Installation completed).

I'm looking for build server setup on WindowsBox2 and I'm looking best practices or steps to follow.

In administration section, I'm seeing agent download option in agent pools tab.

If i download and install agent on windowsbox2 server , will that be considered as Build server.

And what are the differences between agents and build server setup ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 717

Answers (2)

starian chen-MSFT
starian chen-MSFT

Reputation: 33698

You can refer to this article (Deploy an agent on Windows) to setup TFS build/release agent, after that this is your "build server".

There are interactive and service mode and by default it is running in interactive mode, for this mode, you need to call run.cmd (in the same folder of config.cmd) to start agent, then the agent state will be online.

With service mode, you can check whether the corresponding service is running or not in Services.

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 59020

TFS has no concept of a "build server". If an agent is configured on a box and the agent is running, then that box can run builds (and releases, since the release agent is the same piece of software). That's all there is to it. Build agents are assigned to agent pools, which dictate the set of available agents.

In previous iterations of the build system (XAML build, TFS 2010 - TFS 2013, although it's configurable up to TFS 2018), you had to register build controller and assign build agents to the build controller. XAML build is deprecated and should not be used except in the cases of pre-existing legacy builds, so if you're not already using XAML build, you can safely ignore this paragraph.

Upvotes: 2

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