I am new to TFS's release management. I have beend using octopus deploy and I am super happy with how octopus deploy updates configuration files (web.config or app.config) without using tokens. Is there a similar way in TFS RM? Dont really want to have a config file for local development and one with tokens?
Any idea is welcome...
Thanks a lot
For handling configuration in Release Management, there are two techniques generally used Config Per Environment and Tokenization.
If you prefer a clean separation between build and deploy. To achieve that, recommend tokenizing configuration.
As you mentioned above, suggest you to use Config Per Environment.
In “config per environment”, you essentially hard-code a config file per environment. At deploy time, you overwrite the target environment config with the config from source control. This could be an xcopy operation, but hopefully something a bit more intelligent – like an ARM Template param.json file. When you define an ARM template, you define parameters that are passed to the template when it is executed. You can also then define a param.json file that supplies the parameters.
More details please take a look at this wonderful blog: Config Per Environment vs Tokenization in Release Management
