Category Archives: How-To’s

Build Chains: TeamCity’s Blend of Pipelines. Part 2 – Running Builds in Parallel

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

In the previous blog post, we learned about snapshot dependencies and how they can be applied to create build chains in TeamCity. In this blog post, we describe how snapshot dependencies enable parallel builds. More snapshot dependencies Previously, we started … Continue reading →

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Build Chains: TeamCity’s Blend of Pipelines. Part 1 – Getting Started

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

In TeamCity, when we need to build something, we create a build configuration. A build configuration consists of the build steps and is executed in one run on the build agent. You can define as many build steps as you … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with TeamCity TestDrive

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

TeamCity is mostly known as an on-premises CI server. But if you want to get a taste of TeamCity, you don’t really need to install it on your servers. Enter TestDrive! TestDrive is a limited cloud TeamCity offering. It is … Continue reading →

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Building Go programs in TeamCity

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

TeamCity provides support for multiple technologies and programming languages. In TeamCity 2019.1, support for Go has been included in the distribution. In this blog post, we will explain how to configure TeamCity to work with Go programs. Configuring Golang build … Continue reading →

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Building GitHub pull requests with TeamCity

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

The support for pull requests in TeamCity was first implemented for GitHub as an external plugin. Starting with TeamCity version 2018.2 the plugin is bundled in the distribution package with no need to install the external plugin. The functionality has … Continue reading →

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Configuration as Code, Part 6: Testing Configuration Scripts

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

In this blog post, we are going to look at how to test TeamCity configuration scripts. Getting started with Kotlin DSL Working with configuration scripts Creating build configurations dynamically Extending Kotlin DSL Using libraries Testing configuration scripts Given that the … Continue reading →

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Webinar: Getting Started With Building Plugins For Teamcity

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Yegor Naumov

Missing a feature in TeamCity? Build your own plugin! To learn how, join us Tuesday, April 30th, 16:00 CEST (11:00 AM EDT) for the Getting Started with TeamCity Plugins webinar. The webinar introduces you to the ins and outs of … Continue reading →

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Configuration as Code, Part 5: Using DSL extensions as a library

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

Getting started with Kotlin DSL Working with configuration scripts Creating build configurations dynamically Extending Kotlin DSL Using libraries Testing configuration scripts In the previous post, we have seen how to extend TeamCity’s Kotlin DSL by adding new abstractions. If the … Continue reading →

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Configuration as Code, Part 4: Extending the TeamCity DSL

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

Getting started with Kotlin DSL Working with configuration scripts Creating build configurations dynamically Extending Kotlin DSL Using libraries Testing configuration scripts TeamCity allows us to create build configurations that are dependent on one another, with the dependency being either snapshots … Continue reading →

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Configuration as Code, Part 3: Creating Build Configurations Dynamically

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Anton Arhipov

This is part three of the six-part series on working with Kotlin to create build configurations for TeamCity. Getting started with Kotlin DSL Working with configuration scripts Creating build configurations dynamically Extending Kotlin DSL Using libraries Testing configuration scripts We … Continue reading →

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