如何为TFS 2018部署独立Release Management Server？旧版为独立安装，现无文档指引

Hey, let's clear up this confusion for you—you're totally right that there's no standalone Release Management Server installer for TFS 2018, and that's intentional.

Starting with TFS 2017, Microsoft fully integrated the standalone Release Management component into the core TFS server. This was done to streamline the end-to-end deployment pipeline experience, so all release management capabilities are now built directly into your TFS 2018 server instance.

If your goal is to offload deployment-related workloads from your main TFS server (to replicate the "independent server" feel of the old RM setup), here's what you need to do:

• Use Deployment Agents
  You can install dedicated deployment agents on separate servers. These agents handle the actual execution of deployment tasks, while your main TFS server only manages release definitions, schedules deployments, and monitors progress. To set this up:

  1. From your TFS server's administration portal, navigate to Agent Pools.
  2. Download the agent installer package matching your target server's OS.
  3. Run the installer, specify your TFS server URL, and add the agent to a dedicated pool (you can create a new pool just for deployment tasks if needed).

• Leverage Deployment Groups
  If you're deploying to multiple target servers, deployment groups are a better fit. They let you group servers by role (like "web servers" or "database servers") and deploy to the entire group at once. To configure this:

  1. In your TFS release definition, create a new deployment group.
  2. Follow the on-screen instructions to generate a registration script.
  3. Run this script on each target server to add it to the deployment group.

For anyone who used the old standalone RM server previously, TFS 2018 includes a migration tool to move existing release configurations into the integrated system—though it sounds like you're setting up from scratch, so this might not apply to your case.

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者zachern