


Team Services allows you to take advantage of hosted agents for running your build and deployment pipelines. When you build and deploy your apps through Team Services or TFS, you use agents to run the build and deployment tasks. You’re probably asking yourself, “how can a cloud SaaS service like Team Services be able to deploy to our on-premises environments?” That’s what we will explore today.įor the core service, your team has a choice to either use Visual Studio Team Services as a completely hosted SaaS service by Microsoft or you can run it on-premises by setting up Team Foundation Server (TFS). That’s okay! What many people don’t know is that you can still take advantage of great tools like Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation Server to manage your deployments. Your company’s apps may not be hosted in the cloud yet for various reasons, such as their configuration, dependencies, or network requirements. I want to give a big thanks to Sachi Williamson from Northwest Cadence for the guest blog post today! - Ed Blankenship The good news is that it is typically a quick walkthrough on how build & deployment pipelines work. I hear this particular question frequently as a reason teams are concerned about adopting Visual Studio Team Services when their applications still run on-premises.
