History

Important dates

Sources: wikipedia

General concerns

Application Lifecycle

• Documentation
• Project management
• Source code versioning
• Build automation
• Deployment
• Testing
• Artifact management

Everyting is optional: take what you want!

Pricing (Cloud)

• Free tier:
  • 5 developers
  • 1 build in parallel (180min/month)
• Pay as you need (Azure subscription):
  • 6$/developer/month
  • 15$/build in parallel/month
• Free for Visual Studio subscribers and stakeholders
• Free with no limitation for open source projects
• More details: azure.microsoft.com

Authentication & Security

• Microsoft account: personal or work
• Strong integration with Azure Active Directory
• Audit trails
• Azure compliance

Extensibility

Built-in tasks

Marketplace

Make your own extensions

(written in TypeScript)

Main features

Documentation as Code

• Versioned in git repositories
• Markdown format
• Eased UX
  • Online editor
  • Preview
  • Copy/Paste
• Add-ins (dynamic object linking)

Project management

• Work Items: Epic, Feature, Bug, User Story, Task
• Methodologies
  • Agile
  • Kanban
  • SCRUM
  • SAFe
• Everything can be customized
  • Fields + UI
  • Workflow

Source code versioning

• Git repositories
• Pull Requests
  • Discussion thread
• Branch policies
  • Build completion: CI pipeline
  • Quality gates: Sonar, code coverage

Build (pipelines)

• Typologies
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous delivery
  • Scheduling (automated testing)
• Yaml definition

Release (pipelines)

• Typologies
  • Continuous Deployment
• Classic defintion (UI)
• Enhanced UX for operation activity

Test (plans)

Artifact

• Repository:
  • NuGet
  • NPM
  • Maven
  • pip
  • Universal
• Private & public feeds

Administration

Organization

• Organization = company or a subsidiary
• Project = team or business segment
• Team = people sharing same responsibilities
• User licence = Visual Studio, Basic, Stakeholder

Agent pools

• Microsoft hosted
  • Prefered solution
  • VM or Docker
• Self-hosted
  • Mandatory to access private networks
  • Easy to install
• Selection
  • Name
  • Capabilities

Service connection

• Used to access an external service
  • Sonar
  • Docker
  • Azure
• Prefer service account credentials

Configuration & Secrets

• Variable Groups
  • Secret values
  • Variable inter-reference
• Secret files
• External vaults

Limitations

No local environment

• Azure DevOps cannot run in a container
• Strong dependency with Cloud availibility

Limited Cache

• Package (NPM, NuGet) cache not yet working well

Differentiation

Active community

• Excellent documentation
• Important community (Stack Overflow)
• Regular updates (Twitter, events)

Full text search

• Documentation
• Image (OCR)
• Work items (Stories, Bugs, Epics, etc.)
• Source code

Complete REST API

• UI only covers part of the resources available

State of the Art pipelines

• All market features are available
  • Parameters, variables
  • Smart execution conditions
  • Workflow
• Online editor assitant
• All OS and processor families
  • Linux, MacOS, Windows
  • x86, x64, ARM64

DevOps in action!

• Regular deliveries
• Seamless (transparent) system updates
• Feature preview opt-in
• User feedback
• Monitoring metrics
• Public roadmap