Is there a way to perform a release build in Bamboo?

[Jonathan Sternberg]

Is it possible to have an action performed when a person clicks "Create release" in Bamboo? I was thinking of using a workflow for my builds like the following.

• Developer commits to source control
  • Build and tests run
• Completed build is promoted to a release
  • Create a new release in Bamboo
  • Run build to change the version number in the project and repackage
  • Upload change to external service (such as a Maven or Rubygems repository)
  • (optional) Commit changes to the repository for updating the version number
  • Tags VCS with the release version
  • Trigger any automatic deployments
• Trigger deployments
  • Perform deployment steps

Is there a way to do this with Bamboo? Is there an alternative workflow that I should consider instead that allows me to include the release version in the compiled product and modify the SCM? I've been finding problems doing this as part of a deployment plan because the release build needs to be performed once while I may have multiple environments I need to deploy to.

If I try to do this during the build plan, I can't take advantage of the release versioning feature and the release build still won't be triggered if somebody pushes "Create release". Any help would be appreciated.

[Paul Fink]

You can do a build as part of your release plan. All of the build tasks are available in the release but that would defeat the idea of releasing a build. You've created a new build so your not really release what you built, and presumably tested. 

But I share your problem.  How can a label a build when I don't know what release version will be? WHat I did is label the build with the build ID. The build number can always be used to trace back to the release history.

You can also use the planKey & build number as part of your release version. See "add variable to version".

[Mike Friedrich]

How do you solve the problem where binaries contain the release version number? E.g. version info resource in DLL's and EXE's

[Jonathan Sternberg]

As I understand it, does that mean I have to have a build plan (for testing pull requests) and a separate release plan? Is there anyway to leverage the "Create release" button in that case or do I have to make it so every build performed in the "Release plan" is a release? There doesn't seem to be a way to link two different plans to each other in the UI.

[Paul Fink]

I'm not sure if I understand but I'm sure the answer is no. The whole "Create Release" is pretty weak.

[Christoph N_]

Jonathan, did you find a solution yet? I'm in a similar situation and asked Atlassian Support. They created an improvement request, but my hopes are low given the complexity this would probably introduce into Bamboo: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-16231