How to add particular internal tester's group via azure devops pipeline in testflight release

Question

I am able to release a ios app through azure devops to testflight I have multiple group of internal testers. I would like to add one or more specific internal testers group in a the release. I have found ways to add external tester's group in a release. Not able to find any solution to add internal testers via azure devops pipline.

so far I have used AppStoreRelease@1 it has option to add external tester's group but couldn't find any thing about adding internal testers group

I saw this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/stores/apple/testflight_internal I couldn't understand it much.(I am very new to devops and azure). I want to do it through yml file.

Thanks

This is what I am using and it's able to publish the app on testflight. but I have to go to apple's developer's portal and manually add the internal tester's group.

- stage: AppStoreRelease
  jobs:
  - job: ReleaseJob
    displayName: Distribute To TestFlight
    steps:
    - task: AppStoreRelease@1
      inputs:
        authType: 'ApiKey'
        apiKeyId: 'apiKeyId'
        apiKeyIssuerId: 'apiKeyIssuerId'
        apitoken: 'apiToken'
        releaseTrack: 'TestFlight'
        appIdentifier: 'com.app.identifier'
        appType: 'iOS'
        ipaPath: '$(build.artifactStagingDirectory)/**/*.ipa'
        shouldSkipWaitingForProcessing: true
        shouldSkipSubmission: true
        releaseNotes: 'whatToTest.txt'

Answer 1

There is no method on the AppStoreRelease@1 task to specify particular internal testers groups.

To specify particular internal testers groups, you can try like as below:

1. Keep the current configurations on the AppStoreRelease@1 task to let it can release your iOS app as usual.

2. After the AppStoreRelease@1 task, add a script task (such as Bash, PowerShell or CmdLine) to call the TestFlight related API (Adding and Removing Builds and Testers) to add or remove testers groups from the app.

By this way, after the AppStoreRelease@1 task successfully releases the app, the subsequent script task will run and call the related API to assign groups.

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