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In version 2020.2, we introduced the concept of agentless build steps that can be run outside TeamCity, in third-party services. With this functionality, you can detach an agent from a build even before the build finishes. This helps manage agents more effectively: the earlier an agent gets free from one build, the sooner it can start another build. In the scope of the whole server, it allows running more builds on fewer agents. To learn more about agentless steps, watch this video. What tasks can be offloaded to a third party? Common examples are deploying software with services like Oc

Have you ever tried to search for something in the TeamCity settings? TeamCity has a basic search functionality that helps you find projects and build configurations. However, to use more elaborate and complex criteria, you would have to resort to REST API. The new SearchQL plugin allows issuing composite queries directly from the Administration panel. The plugin provides a simple yet expressive query language for this purpose. The autocomplete feature makes it easy to use. To install the plugin, download it from the Marketplace and then upload it to your TeamCity server in Administration | Pl

The TeamCity Plugin Contest has entered its final chapter as we yesterday closed the door to any more plugin submissions. We would like to thank every one of the participants who spread the word, joined the contest, and spent their valuable time developing new plugins. Thank you all – we really appreciate your efforts! Of the 89 developers registered for the contest, 15 submitted valid plugins, each of whom have received a 1-year subscription to a JetBrains IDE of their choice. Congratulations! Submissions for the contest are now closed, and so begins the judging and voting for the b

While TeamCity provides a lot of functionality out of the box and bundles a number of plugins in its distribution package, there are still use cases where you might need something extra. In this blog post, we are going to list 14 cool plugins that add new features or integrate with external tools. The plugins are not bundled with TeamCity in the distribution package but can be easily installed from the JetBrains plugins repository. First, let’s take a look at the plugins that add new functionality to TeamCity for a very specific task in your build process. It could be a plugin that adds in in

The recording of our April 30 webinar, Getting Started with TeamCity Plugins is now available on the JetBrains YouTube channel. In this webinar, we developed a custom runner plugin for TeamCity. The plugin adds a new build step for the echo command and displays the result of the execution in a custom tab for the completed build. You can find the source code of the plugin on GitHub. The timeline: 4:23 - Generate project with Maven archetype 8:23 - Create server-side part of the plugin 18:31 - Create agent-side part of the plugin 24:47 - Configure TeamCity SDK Maven plugin 31:13 - Adding co

Installing new plugins has just become a lot simpler! You don’t have to restart the server to enable a newly uploaded plugin anymore. The TeamCity server now integrates with the JetBrains Plugins Repository. The new integration simplifies the installation of plugins for TeamCity. By clicking the “Browse plugins repository” button in your TeamCity server, you will share some information (URL, server id, and version) with the plugin repository. With this information, the plugin repository is able to suggest installing the selected plugin version directly to your TeamCity server. The screen

Missed the webinar? No problem – the recording of our January 8 webinar, What's New in TeamCity 2018.2, is now available. In this webinar, Anton Arhipov showcases the major features of the latest release. He goes over the secondary node setup and explanation, building GitHub pull requests, showcases the simplified installation of plugins, previewing Kotlin DSL configuration in the UI, automatic assignment of investigations, and metadata in tests. Enjoy watching and feel free to share with your friends and coworkers. Q&A from the session Q: Can secondary server node feature be

Rust is an interesting programming language with decent tooling support. Cargo is an official build tool and a package manager for Rust programs. So what if you use Rust and want to configure automated builds in TeamCity? No worries, we have it covered! You can download the Rust and Cargo support plugin and install it as an additional TeamCity extension. The plugin is compatible with TeamCity starting from version 10. It relies on rustup for managing the Rust toolchain. The plugin detects the Cargo.toml configuration file once you add a VCS root to the Build Configuration, and suggests the c

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 existing TeamCity Azure support, now called TeamCity Azure Classic plugin. Azure Resource Manager is the new Azure deployment model, which has some advanced features and is now becoming popular. More and more users want to deploy cloud agents with it, so today we are glad to announce a new plugin, the

Continuous Integration is all about quick feedback on changes in our code. TeamCity lets us subscribe to important events that may take place during the build process, such as succesful builds, build failures and so on. Email, Jabber, IDE and Windows Tray notifications are supported out of the box, but we can also post these notifications to Visual Studio Online Team Rooms using a newly released plugin. With Visual Studio Online Team Rooms, we can keep a record of things that happen in our team – checkins, work item updates, code reviews and so on. Team members can have conversations wi

Continuous Integration only makes sense if there's an easy way to verify the quality of our codebase and when we can easily correlate builds with our issue tracker and the source code itself. Out of he box, TeamCity provides integration with YouTrack, JIRA and Bugzilla. We can also install plugins to integrate with other issue trackers like GitHub and FogBugz. Today, we're happy to announce another issue tracker integration: the Visual Studio Online Work Items plugin. We've already blogged about how we can link Visual Studio Online source control with TeamCity and run our builds.When using