In this article I will discuss about the five pillars(components) of Azure DevOps. These pillars actually helps to build and manage development life-cycle.
Development life-cycle consists of :
Development life-cycle consists of :
- Requirement gathering,
- Work plan,
- Code management,
- CI/CD.
- Test plans
These components helps key stakeholders proper real time insights of the projects.
Azure Boards
Plan, track, and discuss work across teams, deliver value to your users faster. Boards is used for agile project planning. It is a management tool that provides you the ability to link repos, work items, tasks and sub-tasks. With Azure Boards you can track backlogs and customize dashboards and create custom reporting. It easily helps to monitor progress throughout the lifecycle of your project. Moreover you can integrate boards with tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack to sync up with members.
Azure Repos
Unlimited cloud-hosted private Git repos. Collaborative pull requests, advanced file management, and more.
Azure Repos functionality differs between choosing your Git or Team Foundation Source Control. The most common choice is Git. Git is there with the added benefit of linking commits and pull requests to Work Items and CI. you can customise your branch policies to maintain your team’s high standards. It provides you to protect your code quality with branch policies. you can add code reviewer signoff to keep code quality high.
Azure Pipelines
CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any Git provider and deploy continuously to any cloud. It allows the building, testing and deployment of code using DevOps practices.
Azure Test Plans
The test management and exploratory testing toolkit that lets you ship with confidence.
Azure Artifacts
Create, host, and share packages. Easily add artifacts to CI/CD pipeline. You can share code effortlessly by storing Maven, npm, NuGet and Python packages together and add artifacts to your CI/CD pipelines with a single click.
Azure Overview gives you real time insights of the project.
Happy Learning :)