How do you import a release definition in Azure Devops (VSTS)?

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reggaemahn picture reggaemahn · May 9, 2018 · Viewed 14k times · Source

I'm trying to copy a release definition from one Azure Devops (VSTS) project to another. In the source project I'm able to export the release definition as a json file.

export release definition

But I'm not able to find a way to import this into the target project. I only get options to create new definitions.

create release definition

Answer

Jayendran picture Jayendran · Sep 23, 2018

Since VSTS is Renamed/updated into Azure DevOps, there are some changes in the UI to find those option above.

For Importing

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For Exporting

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Regarding the addendum

All the build/Release definition came along with the single term called Pipeline. So there is no need to create a dummy release definition in order to import a new one. You can import a new release definition without having any dummy one.

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