Development services
Azure resources are not just limited to application requirements that are provisioned and maintained with the application life cycle. They also include certain platform services that are used to implement the application life cycle and development pipeline, such as Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center. In this section, we will take a look at these freemium offers that we will be using to manage our application development and deployments throughout the remainder of the book.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps (previously known as TFS Online or Visual Studio Team Services), which started as the Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite for on-premises product TFS, is now the most widely utilized freemium management portal. Azure DevOps instances can be created from the Azure Portal as well as through the Azure DevOps portal. This process of procurement starts with creating a DevOps organization.
Once the organization is created, a new project can...