Exercise – creating an Azure DevOps organization
The first step when starting with Azure DevOps is to create an Azure DevOps organization. An organization is used to connect a group of related projects; this helps us scale up our organization. We can connect to Azure DevOps using a personal Microsoft account or a school or work account. We use this account to connect our organization to our Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Follow these steps to create a new organization in Azure DevOps:
- Sign in to Azure DevOps and click New organization:
Figure 11.13 – Adding a new organization in Azure DevOps
- Confirm the name of the Azure DevOps organization and its location. Then, click Continue to confirm this:
Figure 11.14 – New organization inputs
- We can sign in to the organization by going to https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}.
- If you are using the free tier with your organization...