VSTS Gems - Manual step in release management pipelines
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Gem
Manual step in release management pipelines
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Area
Release
TFS Availability
Now
Value
- Either for control/monitoring/testing or executing manual procedures, the Manual Intervention is there for you.
Full Description
- Pause a Release deployment cycle to execute a manual step. For example, configure load balancers, execute backups or partially test.
- Can be used to simply guarantee someone is present when the next task is executed.
- You can configure a timeout value (in minutes). If no action is executed, you can either resume the pipeline or fail it.
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