[SOLVED] Filtering azure devops release build based upon build tag with "Continuous deployment trigger"

Filtering azure devops release build based upon build tag with "Continuous deployment trigger"

I am adding a build tag using the below yaml powershell script. The final result will have a condition, but for testing purposes the condition was omitted. I am then trying to filter the release using the bottom picture. I have tried using "skip-release" with an exclude, and "-skip-release" with an include. Neither work. The release is always triggered.

- task: PowerShell@2
  inputs:
    targetType: inline
    script: |
      Write-Host "##vso[build.addbuildtag]skip-release"

QUESTION: Do build tags actually work in the release filters? Or am I doing something wrong? I have searched for days, and asked both chatgpt and claude. No answers found yet.

Solution

TL;DR Excluding tags is not supported.

I suggest you try the opposite approach, i.e. add a tag to the builds you want to deploy and then configure the branch filters with an Include condition.

Example:

Notes:

All the filters specified here will be OR'ed, i.e., artifact matching at least one filter condition would be sufficient to trigger a release.
If you include multiple tags in the same line, they are AND-ed while evaluating the trigger condition, whereas if you include tags in separate lines, they are OR-ed.