Execute concurrent stages within a plan

Cameron Ferguso

For our setup, we compile a single product on different machines (linux 32/64, windows 32/64, etc) for different releases. Nothing for our setup is shared between stages of our plan, and each stage is a different system we compile under. So if we compile 4 version, we have 4 stages, each stage has 2-3 jobs in it.

Is there anyway to configure the plan to execute all the stages at the same time? I've seen concurrent plan options in the admin area, but didn't know if I could say "i want to execute stages x, y, z at the same time" Since each stage deals with a different agent.

Edit: It seems after further research that instead of building on each system as separate stages, I should have a single "build" stage that has multiple jobs, then those jobs could be executed simultaneously. Is this correct?

Thanks!

Przemek Bruski

Stages are always run sequentially. Jobs are always run in parallel (provided that you have enough agents). The concurrency options you have seen relate to plans.

If you want the OS-builds to run concurrently either clone the plan 4 times (once for each system) and delete the extra stages in each of them or put all jobs in a single stage.