Release stages
In layman terms, release stages roughly translates to the environment in which we want the application to be deployed. It is important to emphasize the fact that a stage is only a logical container and does not need to refer to a single server environment. It can refer to various environment infrastructures, as well as a managed distribution ring for mobile applications.
A release stage contains the release jobs that will be executed on release agents. For instance, if we are deploying a build artifact to Azure Stack or a mobile application package to App Center, we can use an agent job on a hosted agent. Nevertheless, if the deployment target is an on-premise server, we would need to use a specific deployment agent or a deployment ...
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