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TeamCity integrates with NuGet package manager and when NuGet is installed provides the following capabilities:
The NuGet Dependency Trigger, which allows triggering builds on NuGet feed updates.
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The NuGet trigger and the NuGet-related build runners require the NuGet command line binary configured on the server. They are automatically distributed to agents once configured. Several versions can be installed and a version of your choice can be set as the default one.
To install NuGet.exe on TeamCity:
NuGet.exe.
If the Download radio button is chosen, select the NuGet version to install on all build agents.
It is recommended to use release versions of NuGet. |
If the Upload radio button is selected, choose your own NuGet package.
Installing NuGet on agents results in agents upgrade. |
NuGet uses several local caches to avoid downloading packages that are already installed, and to provide offline support.
Since TeamCity 2017.2, if an agent is running out of the space, TeamCity will try to clean NuGet packages cache on the agent.
The caches in the following directories will be cleaned:
%NUGET_PACKAGES% environment variable
(must be an absolute path)%LOCALAPPDATA%\NuGet\Cache
%LOCALAPPDATA%\NuGet\v3-cache
%user.home%.nuget\packages
If for some reason you don't want to publish packages to public feed, e.g. you're producing packages that are intended to be used internally; you can use TeamCity as a NuGet Server instead of setting up your own repository.
TeamCity running on any of the supported operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) can be used as a NuGet Server. Since TeamCity 9.0 built-in NuGet feed supports API v2 by default. TeamCity NuGet feed users are recommended to upgrade to TeamCity 10.0.2 and later, as 10.0.2 provides improved compatibility with NuGet. |
To start using TeamCity as a NuGet Server, go to the Administration | NuGet Feed page (available to server system administrators), and click Enable. Two different links will be displayed on the page: for public (with guestAuth
prefix) and private (with httpAuth
prefix) feed. If Public Url is not available, you need to enable the Guest user login in TeamCity on the Administration | Global Settings page.
When the NuGet Server is enabled, all NuGet published packages will be indexed and will appear in NuGet feed. The feed will include the packages from the build configurations where the currently authenticated user has permission to view build artifacts ("View project" permission).
When you have TeamCity NuGet server enabled:
You can publish packages to the feed either as build artifacts of the NuGet Pack build step (using the Publish created packages to build artifacts checkbox, packages will be indexed asynchronously) or via the NuGet Publish build step (since TeamCity 2017.1 packages will be indexed synchronously)
You can add TeamCity NuGet server to your repositories in Visual Studio to avoid having to type in long URLs each time you want to read from a specific package repository (add NuGet repository and specify the public URL provided by TeamCity when enabling NuGet server).
The packages available in the feed are bound to the builds' artifacts: they are removed from the feed when the artifacts of the build which produced them are cleaned up.
You do not need to specify credentials for the internal NuGet feed access; if NuGet Feed Credentials are specified, they are ignored.
If the build artifacts are changed under TeamCity Data Directory manually, you need to instruct TeamCity to reindex NuGet feed. For that, click "reset" link for "buildsMetadata" under Administration > Diagnostic > Caches.
Internet Explorer settings may need to be set to trust the TeamCity Server when working in a mixed authentication environment.
For a step-by-step example of NuGet setup see blog post: Setting up TeamCity as a native NuGet Server.
{hidden-data} * You don't need to install NuGet.exe Command Line tool on agents manually: [TeamCity can do it automatically|#installNuGet]. * To install NuGet packages without having to check them in to your VCS and update packages under solution use [NuGet Installer] build step. * build a NuGet package from a given spec file: [NuGet Pack]. * publish ({{push}}) your NuGet packages to a given feed (custom or default): [NuGet Publish] build runner. * {hidden-data} |
Publishing of NuGet symbol packages to the internal TeamCity feed may cause issues when using an external source server. See the corresponding issue in our public tracker.
See also:
Administrator's Guide: NuGet Installer | NuGet Publish | NuGet Pack | NuGet Dependency Trigger |