How to use manual Intervention (Task) in Release Management?

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Couple of days we deployed our sprint 105 payload on VSTS which enabled manual intervention feature in release management. In this post, I will walk you through the steps you can perform to use manual intervention in your releases.

How to add manual intervention task in your release definition?

  • Add automated tasks in your environment as you have been doing so far. In the below environment, I have added one power-shell task.

default task

  • Add manual intervention task in your release definition environment.
    • Create a server phase
    • Add MI task in the server phase.

server container

miTask

  • Add other tasks which you want to execute post manual intervention. At the end of it, my environment looks like this.

post tasks

 

  • Save the release definition.

How to execute manual intervention task in a release?

  • Create a release as usual.
  • When the release reaches manual intervention task, you will observe that the UI is prompting you to resume/reject the execution. release

 

  • Resume it to pass the task.

resume

  • Releases will proceed to the next phase.

end

That's it. You have seen that it is very easy to add a manual intervention task in an environment and it is easy to execute it.

Enjoy !!