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Microsoft Azure DevOps provides an end-to-end DevOps toolchain for developing and deploying software. It also integrates with most leading tools on the market and is advantageous for orchestrating a DevOps toolchain.
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Azure DevOps provides services for software development teams to plan work, collaborate on code implementation, and build and deploy software products. Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and methodologies that bring together software developers, project managers, and contributors to develop software. It permits companies to make and enhance products quicker than orthodox software development approaches.
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Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server offer the same DevOps features. However, there are some differences to note, which we cover in this section
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Azure DevOps Services: You can access the software-as-a-service offering for Azure DevOps through the Internet. This web-based service has a service-level agreement of at least 99.9 percent uptime, making it reliable. Azure DevOps services are also globally distributed.
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Azure DevOps Server: Azure DevOps Server's backing foundation is a customizable SQL server backend. If your organization embraces this version, you can access the on-premise offering over your internal network. This option is crucial for organizations that want all their data only on their own networks for business reasons.
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Azure Boards: Software development teams can use the interactive and configurable tools in Azure Boards for managing their software projects. It delivers various features, including support for agile and scrum, customizable dashboards, and reporting. As your business grows, you can scale these tools.
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Azure Repos: Azure Repos is a collection of version control and source code management tools in the Azure DevOps toolset. Version control tools are applications that help you track changes you make in your code in real time. As you update your code, you tell the version control tool to take a snapshot of your files. The version control tool saves that snapshot, and you can retrieve it later when needed.
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Azure Test Plans: Azure Test Plans is a test management platform with all the abilities required for different testing styles and gathering feedback from stakeholders. Some testing styles include planned manual testing, user acceptance testing, and exploratory testing.
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Azure Artifacts: Azure Artifacts allows software developers to share their code effectively and handle all their packaged code from one place. With Azure Artifacts, developers can publish packages to their feeds and share them within the same team, across multiple product teams or organizations, and even publicly.
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Visual Studio Marketplace: You can download extensions for Azure DevOps from the Visual Studio Marketplace. These extensions are created by Microsoft, in collaboration with the tech community. They are add-ons that customize and advance your team's venture with Azure DevOps. They can expand different parts of the DevOps toolchain, from managing work items to code integration and testing, pipeline builds and software releases, and team synergy.
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The following are the benefits of Azure DevOps:
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Flexibility: You don't have to use the entire Azure DevOps suite. It is attainable to adopt each of the services independently and merge them with your existing toolchain and process.
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Platform agnostic: Azure DevOps works with various operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and programming languages.
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Cloud agnostic: Azure DevOps supports continuous delivery to other cloud providers.
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Azure DevOps provides an end-to-end DevOps toolchain for developing and deploying software.
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Azure DevOps has two offerings. It can be used either on the cloud as a software-as-a-service platform using Azure DevOps Services or as an on-premise tool using Azure DevOps Server.
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Azure DevOps features include Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts.*
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Continuous monitoring is an essential part of DevOps, and Azure Application Insights is a tool to integrate with the Azure DevOps toolchain for application observability purposes