Is it possible to trigger personal builds using TFS and Jenkins? Similar to what can be achieved using Teamcity. Can a developer trigger a build without checking-in so that his/her changes can be tested before checkin?
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You can do this with TFS. Assuming you are using TFS Build, available in TFS 2015 and in VSTS, and your source control is Git, you can setup a build policy for a specific branch that triggers a build any time a pull request happens. Details here.
If you are using the older XAML builds, look at Gated Checkins.
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I have been looking for a while now. Is there any way to create something like multipipeline branches from jenkins in TFS 2013?
Multipipeline builds in Jenkins work such that everytime a developer creates a branch in the repository, Jenkins would clone the main build and create a new build specifically for that new branch. Once the branch is deleted, the build also disappears. This way we can make sure that nothing is merged back to master, that did not pass tests or doesn't build.
Is there any way to achieve the same effect in TFS 2013? I know its possible in Azure DevOps but can't find anything specifically on TFS 2013. Sadly TFS2013 is a constraint of the project and cannot be changed.
Is there any way to achieve the same effect in TFS 2013?
I am afraid there is no same workflow in TFS2013, TFS newer versions(e.g. 2015 2017 2018...),Azure Devops Service.
Since TFS2013 is an older version, many features are not supported in this version of TFS.
For example: Triggers, Conditions and so on.
So even a similar workflow cannot be used in TFS2013. I suggest you can update TFS2013 to a newer version, so you will have more applicable functions
In the newer version of TFS, Azure Devops Server or Azure Devops Service, it can use triggers and conditions to trigger build or task to verify the branch.
For example:
You could set CI Trigger for pipeline, and set condition for some tasks. Then when the new branch is created, it will trigger the build. In the build, it will determine the task to run based on the triggered branch（condition).
Or in order to avoid directly merging the branch into the master, you can use PR trigger to pre-merge the branch so that you can verify that the branch is correct.
For more detailed information, you could refer to this doc: Build multiple branches
Is there any options to lock TFS check-ins when the build is failing or three consequent times in Jenkins?
Not totally sure about your meaning of lock TFS check-ins. If you just want a developer checks in changes that break the build. We do not have any build in feature to support this integrate with Jenkins.
However, you can guard some or all of your code base against these problems by creating a gated check-in build definition(TFVC) or pull request(Git) through TFS own build system.
If you are using TFVC, by using Gated build, when developers try to check-in, they are prompted to build their changes. More details please take a look at our official tutorial.
If you are using Git, you could use pull request and branch policy. There is a Build validation setting in branch.
Validate code by pre-merging and building pull request changes
With using both of above method, you could only check in codes/changes when build succeed.
I am having an issue with the new TFS 2015 Update 2 Gated Builds.
After attempting a check-in the gated build queues just fine, every part of the build is successful until it reaches the last step of "Check in gated changes".
When I look at the log for that step I get:
[Error]The shelveset _Build_5427;Build\ad8fe058-f936-4908-91de-57e7bc6a2f9d could not be found for check-in
When I look at the 'Get Sources' log, I see:
2016-04-01T19:11:12.3062092Z tf get /version:C6213
2016-04-01T19:11:13.2125013Z tf shelve _Build_5427 /replace
2016-04-01T19:11:13.3218610Z Successfully created new shelveset _Build_5427;Domain\BuildServiceUser
I recognize the username as the service user (and have thus redacted it here). It looks like it is trying to find the correct shelveset name, but for the wrong user.
Update 4/20/2016 :
I ended up having to create a brand new project.
The failed reason: your are trying to check in files with your own account. But the build agent try to check in the changes with the service account.
It seems there are something wrong with your build agent. After you update your TFS server to TFS update2, you also need to update your build agent. If still not work , try to download the agent and deploy a new one. Detail steps from MSDN: Deploy a Windows build agent
I experienced this issue using on-premise TFS 2015 Update 2. As a workaround I settled with a regular CI-build instead of the Gated trigger and I scheduled a release buiild nightly.
However, we have recently installed TFS 2015 Update 3 and that solved the issue. We now use the configuration that we wanted: 1 Gated build that checks in the changes and 1 Continuous Integration build for the release.
I am doing continious Integration between TFS and Jenkins.I am using TFS as a repository server.I am able to create workspace from TFS in jenkins and building of application successfully.I need automation build after TFS checkin.
IIRC Jenkins polls tfs to see if there's been a checkin, when there has it does a build (as opposed to TFS kicking off the build).
We use Jenkins as our CI build server but have moved over to TFS to do all the project management stuff (user stories, dev tasks, test cases, reporting, automation). How do I setup TFS2010 to use our Jenkins build server?
it's actually more like the other way around. You need to configure the TFS plugin for Jenkins, telling it to use TFS as your source control system. below is a link to the jenkins TFS plug-in...
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Team+Foundation+Server+Plugin