create build zip on Azure DevOps Server like github

Question

Currently, I am using Azure DevOps Server for managing my projects. Before that I used GitHub.

Github has a release feature form where we can download source code of any previous release. As here Release list preview

So, does anyone know how do I just create a source code zip of the project in azure DevOps which stores on a server and whenever I need it? I can download zip of that version source code like Github.

Anything similar where I can store full source code as zip of that version. so in the future whenever I need the source code of the project I can get it any time.

Answer 1

You would need to associate an Azure pipeline in order to release artifacts and artifact sources

• A release is a collection of artifacts in your DevOps CI/CD processes.
• An artifact is a deployable component of your application.

Azure Pipelines can deploy artifacts that are produced by a wide range of artifact sources, and stored in different types of artifact repositories.

That can include the use of Archive Files task , in order to generate the same kind of " source code (zip) " seen with GitHub.
Example ( from here , by Mauricio Díaz Orlich ), to be adapted to your case:

- task: ArchiveFiles@2
  displayName: 'Compress Files'
  inputs:
    rootFolderOrFile: '$(Build.BinariesDirectory)'
    includeRootFolder: false
    archiveType: '7z'
    sevenZipCompression: 'maximum'
    archiveFile: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/$(Build.BuildNumber).zip'
    replaceExistingArchive: true