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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:  Azure Pipelines Azure Boards Azure Artifacts Azure Repos 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 deployme...

I have seen a lot of confusion in folks that are new to Microsoft Azure Cloud world about what services are free and how to best utilize trail subscription and free services so I thought to put it into an article here. In a nutshell, Microsoft Azure provides free trial account that has: $200 credit to spend for the first month on all services 12 months of free services Always free services To register a free trial account you need to have a credit card (debit cards won't work) and provide its details to at the time of registration (Azure will run a test transaction of $1 but don't worry they will revert it immediately after transaction is successful). This gives you a subscription to the trial account. You can also see it under your portals subscription section. Now here is something that people often miss out, once you activate MS Azure Free Trial  you get $200 to spend just for the 1 month and after that trial subscription expires. To avail free services yo...

In this blog, we will see how we can get a free domain, create a web app on Microsoft Azure and configure a custom domain on it.We will look into following things: Registering a free domain with  Freenom Creating a Web App in  Microsoft Azure   Configuring a custom domain on Microsoft Azure Web Apps Registering CName and A records on Domain Host-name provider (Freenom) Create and deploy ASP.NET web application on Microsoft Azure Web App through Publish Profile Register Free Domain (.tk) Getting a free domain is not a myth, you can easily obtain a free domain from  Freenom . It provides domains of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf and .gq host names. The procedure is as follow: Goto  Freenom  and search for the domain name (here I have searched breakthrough77). Search results show availability of name in different domain types. As we can see (as of now) there are five domains available for free. Click on Get it now . After selecting domain,...