Build and deploy specific revision number with TeamCity

Question

I'm just getting to grips with TeamCity and MSDeploy and have deployment to a dev environment triggered by SVN commit working nicely. The question I have is in terms of releasing to a test environment; I want to do this on demand and based on a specific revision number. What's the best way to configure a TeamCity build based on a user-defined revision?

Answer 1

You can use Run Custom Build Dialog in the TeamCity, and customize there Changes to include parameter, where you need to specify actually SVN revision to build.

Answer 2

Take a look on Pin functionality in TeamCity. You can pin a certain build and then deploy latest pinned build.

So you have a 'Create development build' task in TeamCity which deploys to dev environment and exposes artefacts. You can create another task in TeamCity that will use artefacts from latest pinned build in 'Create development build' task and deploy to your testing environment.

You can create yet another task that deploys to production latest pinned 'test' build. Rollback can be achieved by simply unpinning last pinned build.

You also have a history of deployed build.