How to Deploy Nuget in Prerelease View With Release Pipeline

Question

I am setting up a DevOps release pipeline that is triggered off a build pipeline.

The build pipeline uses the Nuget Pack to create a nupkg file and publishes it as an Artifact.

The release pipeline is triggered and Nuget Push is used to deploy to the DevOps feed.

I have found the “Promote package to Release View” task, but how do I get the Package Version to provide in the step?

I should note that, in the build pipeline, the Nuget pack step uses the build number for the version.

Answer 1

According to your description, the build pipeline uses Nuget pack with the build number for the version. So, you just need to enable the CD (Continuous deployment trigger) for your release pipeline. Then use the predefined variable Build.BuildNumber in the “Promote package to Release View” task.

Select the package that you want to promote. Multiple packages may be supplied separated with a comma or semicolon. Note you may use either the name of the package or its GUID.