Automated Deployment for your Internal Nuget Packages using VSTS

How to automate nuget package deployment with VSTS

When working with a large enough project or Micro Services, you’re doubt to share some code between your solutions. The code could be events, generic services or utility code that you would like to reuse.

Note: It is important to have an product owner of the nuget package and someone who will be responsible for the changes, and the coordination of all the teams that are using the package.

What we are going to cover:

• Creating a nuget package in DotNet Core
• Setting information about your nuget package
• Setting up automated nuget package deployement using VSTS

Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of C#
• You will need Visual Studio 2017 with the “.NET Core cross-platform development” workload installed
• VSTS account (sign up at visualstudio.com)
• Ensure you have the Package Manager Extension installed on VSTS

Our Nuget Package

We will create a simple package that allows you to publish events. There will be two parts to this, the first will be the Core project which will expose interfaces, and the Azure Queue implementation which implements this interface.