Microsoft Azure DevOps : A Complete CI & CD solution in the cloud

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Microsoft announced Azure DevOps in last Quater of 2018. When it comes to project planning, project management, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) for agile practices, DevOps has always been a hot topic  so Microsoft decided to take the lead with a powerful cloud platform that makes everything available in a single place. No matter what platform or language or repository system your solution is, Azure DevOps got you covered with tools that work cross-platform.

The services provided by Azure DevOps help developers build high quality software faster. The core services provided are:

  1.  Azure Pipelines
  2. Azure Boards
  3. Azure Artifacts
  4. Azure Repos
  5. Azure Test Plans

Azure Pipelines

Azure DevOps provides Azure pipelines to manage CI/CD tasks that supports any language, platform, and cloud. You can connect to a any Git repository and setup CI/CD workflow. Azure DevOps makes it incredibly easy to setup building, testing, and deployment workflow to any platform and cloud including Linux, macOS, and Windows. You can deploy to many platforms including Kubernetes, VMs, Azure Functions, Azure Web Apps, or any cloud and even setup staging, gates and approval to create a deployment strategy that is a right fit for you. If you only want to use the CD part from Azure DevOps, you can even use CI systems from other CI platforms like Jenkins.

Azure Boards

Azure DevOps also provides a complete project planning and management system with Azure Boards that is a Kanban board where you can keep track of your project, backlog items, team dashboard and custom reports. 

Azure Artifacts

Azure DevOps provides Azure Artifacts to create, host, and share packages with your team. You can use public or private sources of packages like Maven, npm, and NuGet and share across your team or project or host publicly. This eliminates the need to manage file shares or host private package servers by enabling cloud-hosted, indexed, and managed packages.   

Azure Repos

If you are planing to fresh start a project or don't already use a repository then Azure Repos is the best place to start because they provide unlimited cloud-hosted private Git repos for your project where you can place all your project with a source control system like git, collaborative pull requests, advanced file management, and much more. You can see/manage commits, create new branch, see what branches are ahead or behind the master branch, see what branches are attached to which tasks, manage pull request or tags associated to releases.

Azure Test Plans

Testing is an important part of a high quality software and Azure DevOps provides an amazing solution for that at Azure Test Plans. You can Test and deliver with confidence through manual and exploratory testing toolkit provided by Azure DevOps. See test result with incredibly rich reporting systems pre-built in the azure test plans.You can Test your app by running tests across desktop or web applications. You can also setup automated testing with Azure Pipelines.

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