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Learning Continuous Integration with TeamCity
book

Learning Continuous Integration with TeamCity

by Manoj Mahalingam Swaminathan
August 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
276 pages
6h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Going meta with Meta-Runners

We have seen that build runners can be very handy. Even though most build runners can be replaced with an equivalent command using the command-line runner, build runners come with the convenience of easily setting up build steps, along with the necessary agent requirements and parameters.

Meta-Runners provide a straightforward way to create custom build runners. Meta-Runners can be thought of as a way to avoid duplications in build steps across build configurations.

Note

While templates can be used to create and maintain build configurations that are very similar, Meta-Runners can be used across build configurations that perform the same build steps. Moreover, a build configuration can only be based on one template, but ...

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