Is it possible to export all build and release definitions from VSTS in a single go?

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Is it possible to export all build and release definitions from VSTS in a single go ?

I know it was possible with TFS,

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '19 at 09:07

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Well, by the same token, you can use Azure Devops API to export those.

answered Mar 05 '19 at 09:07

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Some things to probably note about this approach ... exporting the build definitions leverage hard-coded specific id values. If you try to import later maybe to a fresh environment, you might have issues with things that leverage a specific id (variable groups, tasks groups, etc) – Matt Mar 05 '19 at 15:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '19 at 11:05

Unlike TFS you could use tfpt command line. In Azure DevOps, the simple way is using Rest API to do this.

You could use list build/release definition first, it should return a json file.

Normally, when you import the JSON file, you will get a new build definition.

Besides, if you are using YAML builds which will configure your CI process as code. You could directly copy .yml files.

The release definitions are the same as build.

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