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Introduction Prerequisite: Go through the Azure Essentials and Azure Essentials Continuum courses before taking up Azure DevOps. The topics covered in this course are: Introducing Azure DevOps Co ... ntinuous Integration (CI) Continuous Delivery Continuous Deployment (CD) Continuous Testing Project Management Disclaimer: Azure DevOps services is a cloud tool that is continuously updated. The UI of the tool may be different from the content of the course, but the core functionality remains the same. What is DevOps According to Microsoft, DevOps is: A union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to end users. DevOps is an approach to software application delivery where developers and operations staff collaborate closely, thereby improving quality and enabling faster delivery. CI and CD Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment are the two important elementary processes that contribute to the DevOps practice. They make sure that a software/product is continuously and incrementally updated and deployed, as well as, maintains both functionality and end-user experience. There are various DevOps tools available to enable CI/CD, such as, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, etc. What is Azure DevOps Services? Azure DevOps Services is a Microsoft cloud service tool that offers developer services to support teams to plan work, collaborate code development, and build and deploy applications. Developers can work either on cloud or on-premises by using Azure DevOps services or Azure DevOps server. These were formerly known as visual studio team services (VSTS) and team foundation server (TFS). Azure DevOps Services enables you to: Plan and track work Manage source code Manage packages Build and Deploy Ensure quality and receive timely feedback. Extend, Customize, and Integrate with other services. Use Azure DevOps Services for quick setup, maintenance-free operations, easy collaboration across domains, scalability, and security. Azure DevOps Services Features Azure DevOps Services has a set of features that can be used either through a web browser or IDE client:Azure Repos provide unlimited private Git repositories to control source code. Azure Pipelines provide build, test, and deploy services to support CI/CD for applications. Azure Boards deliver agile tools to support, plan, track, and discuss work across teams by using Scrum, Kanban methods. Azure Test Plans provide manual and exploratory tools to test applications and support continuous testing. Azure Artifacts allow to host, create, and share packages such as Maven, and npm NuGet across teams, and also enable to add artifacts to the CI/CD pipelines. Azure DevOps Services Features Azure DevOps Services Features In the web portal, the left side menu display all the DevOps features provided by azure to try on. Azure DevOps Server Azure DevOps Server is a Microsoft DevOps tool built on an SQL server, and hosted on-premises to manage and collaborate projects effectively. When Azure DevOps Server is deployed on-premises, the SQL server and SQL Analysis server can also be configured. It is also useful if you require data to reside within a network, and to track work with better customization by using the onpremises XML process model. Azure DevOps Services Vs Azure DevOps Server As stated in the previous cards, DevOps services is a cloud offering, while DevOps server is an on-premises offering by Microsoft. DevOps services do not support all the features supported by DevOps server such as SQL Server analysis services integration for reporting. Besides this, there are several fundamental differences between these two offerings in terms of authentication, managing user access, security and data protection, and so on. Note: For details and options related to migration from on-premises to cloud, or vice-versa, refer to link. Getting Started To work with Azure DevOps Services, you need an account. Register for free with your Azure account at Register. Azure DevOps Services can be launched either through the Azure portal, or directly from the Azure DevOps Demo Generator. Azure Portal To launch services through the Azure portal, Search for Azure DevOps, and select My Azure DevOps Organizations. The organizations page appears. Note: Create an organization before creating a DevOps project. Create a project (Create a project to get started page). Configure the project name, description, and visibility of the project. Azure DevOps Demo Generator To launch services through the Azure DevOps Demo Generator, Sign In and authenticate with your Azure account, and accept all the actions. Note: If you have not created an organization, select Get started for free from the Azure DevOps Demo Generator page, and authenticate with your Azure account. Signing Up with GitHub Account Sign up for DevOps services with your GitHub account.To sign up, Click Start Free with GitHub Account. Click Signin with GitHub. Enter your GitHub account credentials, and click Authorize Microsoft-corp > Continue. Creating a Project Creating a Project If you sign up with a newly created Microsoft account for Azure DevOps, a project is created automatically with a name based on your sign-in. or If you sign up with an existing Microsoft account or GitHub identity for Azure DevOps, you will be prompted to create a project (public or private). After successful creation of a project, the welcome page appears. Welcome Page Welcome Page The welcome page displays the project name, DevOps features, and other options. Invite\Add Team Members To give access to your organization, team members can be added by specifying their email ID or GitHub usernames. To add a user, 1-From the welcome page, navigate to Organization settings -> Users -> Add users. 2-Enter data in the following fields: Users: Email ID or GitHub username. Use semicolon (;) as a separator to add multiple users. Access Level: Basic for users who will contribute to code base. Add to Project: Project to which a user is to be added. DevOps Groups: Project Contributors for users who will contribute to the project. 3-Click Add. Azure CLI Command To access your team details by using Azure DevOps CLI commands, the CLI command is: az devops team list-member --team [--org] [--project] [--skip] [--top] Parameters: --team : Required (name of the team). --org : Azure DevOps organization URL. For example, https://dev.azure.com/MyOrganizationName/ --project : Name of the project. --skip : Optional (number of members to skip). --top : Optional (maximum number of members to return). Azure CLI Command The following is the CLI comand to list the first five members of a team named Contoso: az devops team list-member --team "Fabrikam Team" --top 5 --output tableID Name Email 3b5f0c34 Christie crunch [email protected] 4u7hj03 Mcloed johny [email protected] 7iab6ioa Clant mccarthy [email protected] 5iubx035 Green praisam [email protected] 8sbfj9o3 Comey salt [email protected] Azure CLI Command The following is the Azure CLI command to get team details: az devops team show --team [--org] [--project] Example az devops team show --team "Fabrikam Team" --output table ID Name Description a48cb46f Fabrikam Team The default project team. Was Fabrikam Fiber Team Azure Boards Azure Boards enable teams to manage their software projects. This includes native support for scrum, kanban, integrated reporting, and customizable dashboards. Azure Boards Tools The following interactive lists and signboards are provided by Azure Boards. Each tool offers a set of filtered work items, and supports viewing and defining work items. Work Items Boards Backlogs Sprints Queries Work Items Using work items you can track features and requirements being developed, code defects or bugs, and other particulars. It is similar to issues in GitHub, but contains different types to track various types of information. Each work item represents an object stored in the work item data store based on a work item type, and is assigned an identifier that is unique to an organization or project collection. The work item types available are based on the process used when the project was created (Agile, Basic, Scrum, CMMI). Process Templates Whenever you create a project, choose a process or process template based on the process model you use. A process template defines the building blocks for the work item tracking system. Process templates supported by Azure DevOps are Basic, Agile, CMMI, and Scrum. Choose the template that best fits a project. Work Item Types Basic Process Three types of work items - epics, tasks and issues. Epics - To track significant features or requirements Issues - To track user stories, bugs, or other smaller items of work. Tasks To track even smaller amounts of work. For example, to track time either in hours or days. As works progresses from not started to completed, update the State workflow field (To Do, Doing, and Done).Agile Process Multiple types of work items - user stories, bugs, features, epics, task&mdash. As works progresses from not started to completed, update the State workflow field (New, Active, Resolved, and Closed). Features can be added to track specific applications or sets of work. Define user stories to track work assigned to specific team members, and bugs to track code defects. Boards and Backlogs Boards and Backlogs Boards and Backlogs are interactive tools to track work. You can add and update the status of work using the Kanban board, assign work to team members, tag with labels to support queries, and filter data. You can add and update the status of work from New, Active, Resolved, and Closed using the Kanban board for an agile process, and add tasks as child items to user stories. Sprints Sprints enable to forecast work based on effort estimates, and determine how much work can be done within a sprint. To schedule a sprint, 1.From the web portal, select the relevant project. 2.Click Boards -> Sprints. 3.Click team, and then click Backlog. 4.Click set sprint dates. 5.Enter the iteration name, and sprint start and end dates. 6.Click Save. Queries Queries are filtered lists of work items based on criteria defined in a query editor. Queries are used to support the following tasks: Finding groups of work items that have something in common. Listing work items to be shared with others, or for bulk updates. Creating status and trend charts that can be added to dashboards. Azure Repos Azure Repos is a set of version control tools that help manage project code. It also supports tracking changes made to project code. As you edit code, the version control system takes a snapshot of the files, and saves it permanently so it viewed later, if required. It keeps a history, so you can review, and even restore to an earlier version. Azure Repos offer two types of version control: Git: Distributed Version Control Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC): Centralized Version Control Version Control Types Git Git is the most widely used distributed version control system. In Git, the local copy of code includes the complete version control repository. In Azure Repos, Git is standard Gi [Show More]

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