I currently have a release defined for pushing clients to an internal nuget server.
Each release is identical in terms of steps, the only thing that changes is the triggering artifact.
However when I add another artifact to a "generic" release, so that there are now ClientA and ClientB artifacts on the release, both artifacts are downloaded when the release is triggered and they are both then pushed.
What I would like to know is if it is possible to have the release only download the triggering artifact.
Example:
A release is triggered on both ClientA and ClientB.
ClientB is released. The build triggers and only uses the ClientB artifact during the deployment.
I don't think this is possible at the moment, but something similar is possible though.
Create a task group from the current release definition as described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/pipelines/library/task-groups?view=vsts
There clone the release definition and change the artifact from ClientA to ClientB.
You'll end up having two release definition, both sharing the steps but the artifacts will be different.
EDIT: PowerShell script to download Build artifacts
Eddie suggested a nice workaround. Here's how you can pull down an artifact manually.
You need to enable Allow scripts to access OAuth token
Add a PowerShell task to each phase and reference the DownloadBuildArtifacts.ps1 script
If the release is triggered by build artifacts, the value of the pre-defined variable "$(RELEASE.TRIGGERINGARTIFACT.ALIAS)" will be the triggered artifacts alias. You can get the value of this variable to determine which artifact trigger the release.
There isn't any way to achieve this out of box. But you can disable auto download artifacts and add a powershell script in your release definition to get the triggered artifact and download it.
There isn't the way to just download the triggered artifacts, but you can identify which artifact trigger this release through RELEASE_TRIGGERINGARTIFACT_ALIAS variable.
So, you can push corresponding one per to that variable.
