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jobs.deployment definition

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A deployment job is a special type of job. It's a collection of steps to run sequentially against the environment.

jobs:
- deployment: string # Required as first property. Name of the deployment job, A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore. The word deploy is a keyword and is unsupported as the deployment name.
  displayName: string # Human-readable name for the deployment.
  dependsOn: string | [ string ] # Any jobs which must complete before this one.
  condition: string # Evaluate this condition expression to determine whether to run this deployment.
  continueOnError: string # Continue running even on failure?
  timeoutInMinutes: string # Time to wait for this job to complete before the server kills it.
  cancelTimeoutInMinutes: string # Time to wait for the job to cancel before forcibly terminating it.
  variables: variables | [ variable ] # Deployment-specific variables.
  pool: string | pool # Pool where this job will run.
  environment: string | environment # Target environment name and optionally a resource name to record the deployment history; format: environment-name.resource-name.
  strategy: strategy # Execution strategy for this deployment.
  workspace: # Workspace options on the agent.
    clean: string # Which parts of the workspace should be scorched before fetching.
  uses: # Any resources required by this job that are not already referenced.
    repositories: [ string ] # Repository references.
    pools: [ string ] # Pool references.
  container: string | container # Container resource name.
  services: # Container resources to run as a service container.
    string: string # Name/value pairs
  templateContext: # Deployment related information passed from a pipeline when extending a template.

jobs:
- deployment: string # Required as first property. Name of the deployment job, A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore. The word deploy is a keyword and is unsupported as the deployment name.
  displayName: string # Human-readable name for the deployment.
  dependsOn: string | [ string ] # Any jobs which must complete before this one.
  condition: string # Evaluate this condition expression to determine whether to run this deployment.
  continueOnError: string # Continue running even on failure?
  timeoutInMinutes: string # Time to wait for this job to complete before the server kills it.
  cancelTimeoutInMinutes: string # Time to wait for the job to cancel before forcibly terminating it.
  variables: variables | [ variable ] # Deployment-specific variables.
  pool: string | pool # Pool where this job will run.
  environment: string | environment # Target environment name and optionally a resource name to record the deployment history; format: environment-name.resource-name.
  strategy: strategy # Execution strategy for this deployment.
  workspace: # Workspace options on the agent.
    clean: string # Which parts of the workspace should be scorched before fetching.
  uses: # Any resources required by this job that are not already referenced.
    repositories: [ string ] # Repository references.
    pools: [ string ] # Pool references.
  container: string | container # Container resource name.
  services: # Container resources to run as a service container.
    string: string # Name/value pairs

jobs:
- deployment: string # Required as first property. Name of the deployment job, A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore. The word deploy is a keyword and is unsupported as the deployment name.
  displayName: string # Human-readable name for the deployment.
  dependsOn: string | [ string ] # Any jobs which must complete before this one.
  condition: string # Evaluate this condition expression to determine whether to run this deployment.
  continueOnError: string # Continue running even on failure?
  timeoutInMinutes: string # Time to wait for this job to complete before the server kills it.
  cancelTimeoutInMinutes: string # Time to wait for the job to cancel before forcibly terminating it.
  variables: variables | [ variable ] # Deployment-specific variables.
  pool: string | pool # Pool where this job will run.
  environment: string | environment # Target environment name and optionally a resource name to record the deployment history; format: environment-name.resource-name.
  strategy: strategy # Execution strategy for this deployment.
  workspace: # Workspace options on the agent.
    clean: string # Which parts of the workspace should be scorched before fetching.
  container: string | container # Container resource name.
  services: # Container resources to run as a service container.
    string: string # Name/value pairs

Definitions that reference this definition: jobs

Properties

deployment string. Required as first property.
Name of the deployment job, A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore. The word deploy is a keyword and is unsupported as the deployment name.

displayName string.
Human-readable name for the deployment.

dependsOn string | string list.
Any jobs which must complete before this one.

condition string.
Evaluate this condition expression to determine whether to run this deployment.

continueOnError string.
Continue running even on failure?

timeoutInMinutes string.
Time to wait for this job to complete before the server kills it.

cancelTimeoutInMinutes string.
Time to wait for the job to cancel before forcibly terminating it.

variables variables.
Deployment-specific variables.

pool pool.
Pool where this job will run.

environment jobs.deployment.environment.
Target environment name and optionally a resource name to record the deployment history; format: environment-name.resource-name.

strategy jobs.deployment.strategy.
Execution strategy for this deployment.

workspace workspace.
Workspace options on the agent.

uses jobs.job.uses.
Any resources required by this job that are not already referenced.

container jobs.job.container.
Container resource name.

services string dictionary.
Container resources to run as a service container.

templateContext templateContext.
Deployment related information passed from a pipeline when extending a template. See remarks for more information. For more information about templateContext, see Extended YAML Pipelines templates can now be passed context information for stages, jobs, and deployments and Templates - Use templateContext to pass properties to templates.

Remarks

In YAML pipelines, the pipelines team recommends that you put your deployment steps in a deployment job.

Examples

jobs:
  # track deployments on the environment
- deployment: DeployWeb
  displayName: deploy Web App
  pool:
    vmImage: ubuntu-latest
  # creates an environment if it doesn't exist
  environment: 'smarthotel-dev'
  strategy:
    # default deployment strategy, more coming...
    runOnce:
      deploy:
        steps:
        - script: echo my first deployment