DevOps on Microsoft Azure
Have you ever wondered how your team can start doing DevOps from the ground up? With Microsoft DevOps Projects on Azure you can get started in a few minutes.
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Montreal leg of Microsoft’s Canadian Tech Summit series and as usual we were provided with great content on upcoming new features living on Microsoft Azure. One of those features is the new DevOps Projects running on Azure. DevOps Projects are customizable CI/CD pipelines with an easy to use UI. The process is very simple: you select your favourite language (screenshot below), you select a code repository source (currently supporting Visual Studio Online), and you let Azure work for a couple of minutes.
Once the project is ready, you are presented with a dashboard of your application with information on your CI/CD Pipeline and application metrics.
The DevOps project interfaces with your favourite features of Visual Studio online such as release management configuration. The screenshot below shows an example of a CI/CD pipeline where the changes are promoted automatically to the QA environment but the Production environment requires a manual build.
Next time you wonder how to “DevOps”, DevOps Projects is a great place to start. In a few minutes you will have a full-stack CI/CD ready to use and easy to customize. You can read more about DevOps Projects on Microsoft’s Official Website: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/devops-projects/
