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Azure DevOps Overview

Interacting with Azure DevOps

Azure CLI

  • You can use Azure CLI with the Azure DevOps extension to work with Azure DevOps
    • Enables automate everything as you can script anything and hook it in a build pipeline.
  • Run on Linux, macOS or Windows
  • Accessible via browser using Azure Cloud Shell
  • It structures as group, sub group and commands
    • az –help: display all groups, sub groups and commands
      • e.g. vm is sub group of az so you can run az vm -help too
    • Find command: az find -q MyCommand

Azure PowerShell

  • PowerShell providing services like Shell and Command parsing
  • Base PowerShell has 2 format:
    • Windows PowerShell
    • PowerShell core (Cross platform, Linux and macOS)
  • Cmdlets are shipped in modules
    • Module is a .DLL that include the code for Cmdlet
    • Cmdlet is loaded by loading all its modules
    • Get-Module to get list of all loaded modules.
  • Azure PowerShell is a PowerShell module that can be added to Windows PowerShell & PowerShell core
    • Accessible via browser using Azure Cloud Shell
  • 💡 Can store templates or scripts on Azure Storage account and securing them with SAS token

Azure DevOps tool landscape

  • Azure Repos
    • Source control for your code.
    • You can use Git repositories or Team Foundation Version Control.
  • Azure Pipelines
    • Helps providing build & release services for continuous integration & delivery
  • Azure Boards
    • Agile tools that support planning and tracking work items
  • Azure Test Plans
    • Tools for testing your applications
  • Azure Artifacts
    • Allows teams to work with maven, npm and NuGet packages
    • Same purpose as JFrog Artifactory

Licensing & Azure DevOps packages

Azure DevOps Server

  • 📝 Can install on-prem
  • Free-trial available
  • Formerly known as Team Foundation Server
  • Pay month-to-month or 3-year commitment
    • Bonus for using cloud services for migration.
    • You'll also need Windows or Windows Server licenses for the servers

Azure DevOps Services

  • On cloud
  • Licensing
    • Individual services:
      • e.g. Azure Pipelines & Azure Artifacts
      • Free tier available
    • User licenses
      • Basic Plan: First 5 users free then cheap price per user
      • Basic + Test plans: More expensive per user
    • Management:

Service hooks

  • Trigger tasks in external services from Azure DevOps
    • E.g. if code is pushed => create a new card in Trello or just call a webhook
  • You can integrate with (see updated list in official documentation)
    • Build and release: AppVeyor 1, Bamboo 2, Jenkins 3, MyGet 4, Slack 5 .
    • Collaborate: FlowDock 6, HuBot, Office 8 .
    • Customer support: UserVoice 9, ZenDesk 10 .
    • Plan and track: Trello 11 .
    • Integrate: Service Bus 12, Azure Storage 13, Grafana 14, Web Hooks 15, Zapier 16 .

Managing users and their access

  • Access levels
    • Basic features
      • Accessed by first 5 free users.
      • Includes almost all of the features.
    • Stakeholder features
      • Unlimited free users
      • Only includes working with Azure boards but not with agile tools such as Kanban boards, backlogs etc.
  • Go to your "Organization Settings" -> Users
    • List of users & their access levels (basic / stakeholder)
    • You can add new users here:
      • A user must have a valid Microsoft account.
      • They get an e-mail to join.

Notifications

  • You're notified when changes occur to work items, code reviews, pull requests, source control files, and builds.
  • You can be notified via email.
  • Notifications are managed in 4 levels:
    • Your own notifications in your organization menu, managed by you
    • Team notifications, managed by a team administrator
    • Project notifications, managed by a member of the Project Administrators group
    • Organization/collection-level notifications, managed by a member of the Project Collection Administrators group

Extensions

  • Install extensions
    • Extensions are installed on organization level.
    • Allows you to e.g.:
      • Introduce new tasks in Azure Pipelines
      • Integrate with e.g. JIRA
      • Solve pull request conflicts
      • ...