Exploring Azure DevOps
To create software with a team, we need a set of tools that help plan the project, collaborate on code, run test cases, and build and deploy code efficiently. Software vendors often bundle these services together to improve the developer experience. This set of these tools is called a DevOps suite. Over the years, Microsoft has embraced the use of DevOps practices and developed tools to make DevOps workflows accessible to everyone.
Azure DevOps includes built-in functionality that you can access from a web browser using Azure servers or via an IDE client via the on-premises installable version. Depending on your business needs, you can use one or more of the following standalone services:
- Azure Boards, where the developer team can manage work efficiently.
- Azure Repos, where we host source code on Azure servers.
- Azure Pipelines, which ensures the hosting, building, and deployment of our code in the cloud.
- Azure Test Plans provides multiple...