TeamCity

Bazel is an interesting build tool for compiling large projects and it comes with build-ins for Java, C++, Python, etc. Some of our users are adopting Bazel and we received a few requests to support it in TeamCity. Bazel plugin for TeamCity is now published in the plugin repository and could be i…

The hassle with Pull Requests These days pull requests is a common technique of accepting changes from third-party contributors. In fact, it proved to be so convenient that some companies started to use it even for their regular development workflows. It is possible to configure TeamCity to run bui…

We are happy to announce that now TeamCity provides a tight integration with Google Cloud services. The Google Cloud Agents plugin allows using Google Compute Engine to start cloud instances on demand to scale the pool of cloud build agents and also supports using cost-efficient preemptible virtual …

The .NET Core development platform is the next wave of .NET ecosystem evolution which brings cross-platform targets for your existing or new products. Microsoft ships .NET Core SDK packages with a runtime for supported platforms and command line tools (.NET CLI) to build, test, and pack such project…

Microsoft has recently introduced a new way to deploy cloud resources, so currently there exist two Azure deployment models supported by TeamCity as two separate plugins. The earlier Azure deployment model is in the feature freeze state and is now called Azure Classic. The same goes for the exist…

In a large TeamCity setup with many projects, it's often very difficult to predict the load on build agents, for example during releases. One minute we need only one agent to be running, the next minute we need 50. Not to worry! TeamCity supports scaling out builds to Amazon EC2, and starting today,…

Today we have some interesting news for you - the Torrent plugin for TeamCity! With this plugin, users and build agents can download TeamCity build artifacts faster, especially in a distributed environment. A bit of the BitTorrent protocol details For those of you who are not familiar with BitT…

This post describes one of the new features in the upcoming TeamCity 8.0 Using TeamCity, we can easily set up a build farm using a central TeamCity server and several connected build agents. By having multiple build agents, we can run builds and build configurations in parallel. Different branches …

After our posts about TeamCity's new multiple build steps (previously called "multiple build runners") feature and further changes in .NET build runners, I believe that plugin developers might have some questions to be clarified. So today, I'm going to shed some light on the major agent-side API c…

It's about time to try a new TeamCity 6.0 EAP build, which introduces the long-awaited feature - Multiple Build Runners. Many of you voted for this one, and now we would like to hear your feedback on it. Here's how it works - you can add as many build runners to a single build configuration as you …