HOI AZURE DEVOPS

Below follows the Azure DevOps Services –

• Azure Repos.

• Azure Pipelines.

• Azure Boards.

• Azure Test Plans.

• Azure Artifacts.

• Azure Collaboration Tools.

Azure Repos –

• Source Code Version Control.

• Supports – GIT and TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control)

• Ability to create multiple branches.

• Each branch represents a version of code.

• Single developer or a team of developer will have access to the branch.

• Code can be pulled from a particular branch to local GIT repository, required changes can be done, and finally the new code version will be published/Committed into the same branch.

• Once all changes are committed to all branches, we will then be able to Merge all the changes to the Higher Branch.

Example:–

Test branch > Once the application code is tested on the Test branch > Will be moved to Master branch (Production)

Azure Pipelines –

• Fully Featured CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment).

• Works with preferred GIT providers.

• Can be deployed to Major Cloud Services.

Below can be created –

• Build Pipelines – Will build code.

• Release Pipelines – Carry out release to a specific destination.

Example:–

Code Enhancement in Dev branch > Code will then be merged to Test branch > Testing will performed > Code will then be merged into Master branch (Production) > Build will be triggered automatically when code changes is merged from Test branch to Master branch > Post build, it will be released in Production.

Azure Boards –

• Supports SCRUM and KANBAN.

• Customizable Dashboards.

• Integrated Reporting.

• Similar to Microsoft Planner.

• Manage and Track Activities.

• Move the Activities between various Buckets (Not Started, Started, In-Progress, Completed).

Azure Test Plans –

• Browser based Test Management Solution.

• Manual testing capabilities provided.

• Exploratory testing capabilities provided.

Azure Artifacts –

• Universal Store for Development and Deployment.

• Applications have dependencies on various Packages. NuGet, Npm and Maven are most commonly used packages.

• While building and releasing code, either packages will be consumed or published in the Artifacts.

• These Packages in the Artifacts will be referred by Azure Pipelines.

Azure Collaboration Tools –

• Customizable team dashboards with Customizable Widgets to share information, progress and trends.

• Built-in wikis.

• Setup Notification.

Commonly used widgets are mentioned below –

• Widget focusing on Azure Repository > Changes in a particular repository can be tracked.

• Widget focusing on Azure Pipelines build progress > How many builds completed successfully; How many builds failed.

Example:–

Build process fails > We need to get Notified > Can be configured within Azure DevOps Collaboration Tools.

Note:-

When we are trying to use Azure DevOps for the first time in our organization, we have to correlate our organization structure into DevOps.