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Luiso
Luiso

Reputation: 4113

Override appveyor publish profile

I have an MVC 5 application we're moving from on-premise to the Azure cloud. Currently, we have several publish profiles, one per environment, which we determine using a powershell script. One of our goals is to make the building scripts and infrastructure as simple as possible, so I was wondering if I could make it so that using only my appveyor.yml file I could set the publish profile to be used, so

Is there a way to set the publish profile from the appveyor.yml file?
If not what are my choices?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 188

Answers (1)

Ilya Finkelsheyn
Ilya Finkelsheyn

Reputation: 2881

You can run your PowerShell script as part of desired build step in pipeline. It is possible can run commands right from YAML file or UI or check-in your PowerShell script into repository and run .ps1 file. You might consider using secure variables to avoid checking in things like connection strings into repo in clear text.

However this custom script/profiles approach will not allow you to use built-in WAP artifacts packaging and you will be also needed to use custom script instead of automatic MSBuild mode. Which is OK, but a little bit more scripting. Also you will be needed to publish artifacts so it will be available for deployment.

Maybe easier option is to let AppVeyor do all build and WAP artifacts packaging/publishing automatically, and then use built-in Web Deployment with Web Deploy parametrization instead of multiple publishing profiles.

But if you decide to go with custom scripts, and multiple publishing profiles, you still can use use built-in Web Deployment with artifacts created by your scripts.

Upvotes: 1

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