Overview Of Azure Devops

Azure DevOps provides developer services for support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications.

It allows organizations to create and improve products at a faster pace than they can with traditional software development approaches.

Azure Devops Standalone services,

• Azure Repos provides Git repositories or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) for source control of your code
  
  
  
• Azure Pipelines provides build and release services for continuous integration and delivery of your applications
  
  
  
• Azure Boards delivers a suite of Agile tools to support planning and tracking work, code defects, and issues using Kanban and Scrum methods
  
  
  
• Azure Test Plans provides several tools to test your apps, including manual/exploratory testing and continuous testing
  
  
  
• Azure Artifacts allows teams to share packages such as Maven, npm, NuGet, and more from public and private sources and integrate package sharing into your pipelines

Additional features

• Customizable team dashboards with configurable widgets to share information, progress, and trends
• Built-in wikis for sharing information
• Configurable notifications

Choose Azure DevOps Server

Choose on-premises Azure DevOps Server when,

• Data should stay within your network

Collaboration services

• Team dashboards
• Project wiki
• Discussion within work item forms
• Linking of work items, commits, pull requests, and other artifacts to support traceability
• Alerts and change notifications managed per user, team, project, or organization
• Ability to request and manage feedback
• Analytics service, analytic views, and Power BI reporting

Service hooks

Service hooks enable you to complete tasks on other services when events happen within your project hosted on Azure DevOps.

Cloud-hosted services based on usage

The following services support your DevOps operations:

• Cloud-based, Microsoft-hosted build and deployment agents
• On-premises self-hosted agents to support build and deployment

Administrative services

There are features and tasks associated with administering a collaborative software development environment.