Chapter 10. Taking It a Level Up

In this chapter, we will be looking at some of the more advanced concepts in TeamCity. These concepts can improve the entire setup of TeamCity and aid in moving towards a better CI setup.

While many of these concepts need not be implemented or used in a TeamCity server, their usage definitely takes the CI setup up a level.

We will be covering the following advanced topics in this chapter:

  • Build configuration templates
  • Meta-Runners
  • Tagging and pinning builds
  • Build history and artifacts cleanup
  • Build queue priorities
  • Build script interaction with TeamCity

Build configuration templates

Templates allow us to create similar build configurations easily, without having to duplicate the similar configurations between them. Templates ...

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