DevOps
This post is a short description of DevOps and Azure DevOps.
What is DevOps?
DevOps (a portmanteau of “development” and “operations”) is the combination of practices and tools designed to increase an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services faster than traditional software development processes. This speed enables organizations to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market.
In simple terms, DevOps is about removing the barriers between traditionally siloed teams, development and operations. Under a DevOps model, development and operations teams work together across the entire software application life cycle, from development and test through deployment to operations.
DevOps and the application lifecycle
DevOps influences the application lifecycle throughout its plan, develop, deliver, and operate phases. Each phase relies on the others, and the phases are not role-specific. In a true DevOps culture, each role is involved in each phase to some extent.
What Is Azure DevOps?
Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services—VSTS) is a set of tools and services that help DevOps teams provision and manage production environments. It helps teams automate, orchestrate, and manage application and service delivery.
Azure DevOps optimizes source control, build, test, and release processes to enable continuous delivery. It also promotes the use of DevOps practices across cloud and on-premises environments.
Microsoft also offers Azure DevOps Server, the evolution of Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). Azure DevOps Server is an on-premises version of Azure DevOps, which you can deploy in your local data center and provides similar services and functionality to the cloud-based Azure DevOps service.
Azure DevOps Services and Tools
Azure Boards
Azure Boards offers interactive, customizable tools to help developers manage software development projects. It includes many capabilities, including an easy-to-configure dashboard, calendar views, integrated reporting, and native support for Scrum, Kanban, and Agile processes.
Azure Repos
Azure Repos is a version control toolkit that helps teams manage their application code. Version control is useful for all software development projects, preferably implemented early on, regardless of size.
A version control system is a software tool that helps users track the changes made to an application’s code over time. It takes snapshots of the files whenever a developer edits the code, saving the snapshot in a permanent record. Version control systems allow teams to coordinate their code changes and recall specific changes when required.
Azure Pipelines
Azure Pipelines can automatically build and test code, making it available to various projects. It supports most languages and project types. Azure Pipelines offers combined continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for building and testing code and shipping it to a target. Implementing a CI/CD pipeline helps ensure high-quality, consistent code while making it easily accessible to team members.
Azure Pipelines offers a fast, secure, and easy way to automate the building process and make projects available to various users. It supports all languages and platforms, integrates with GitHub and Azure deployments, and can deploy to multiple targets simultaneously. Azure Pipelines is also well-suited for open source development projects and builds on Linux, Mac, and Windows machines.
Conclusion
This post was a very short description for DevOps and azure DevOps.