Azure DevOps is here!

Yesterday, Microsoft announced Azure DevOps services. For those of you who are familiar with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), will be happy to know that Azure DevOps is an evolution of VSTS making available the following products:

• Azure Pipelines: create pipelines for your software with no restriction regarding programming platforms or languages, operating system, containers, and cloud providers. If you use GitHub as source control platform for your open source projects, you can use free of charge until 10 parallel jobs and unlimited minutes.

• Azure Board: plan and organize your work using Boards. Be able to define iterations and work items. Check progress at any time using dashboards and charts.

An example of Azure Board

Charts help you track progress

• Azure Artifacts: package management for Nuget, npm, and Maven. You can integrate package deploy directly in your CI/CD pipeline using simple steps.

A list of packages from different sources

• Azure Repos: source control for your software. You can use unlimited Git private repos. Also, you can create pull requests to validate and improve code quality and associate them with build automation.
  Need to find a code fragment? No problem, code search helps you!

A list of pull requests

• Azure Test Plans: create test plan, execute them and get detailed reports that help you to test your software.
  Do you need to do manual testing? Just do exploratory testing using browser integrated tools to collect data.

Test planning

Exploratory testing process

You can use each product as a single service (integrated with everything you already have), or you can take full advantage of the entire ecosystem.

For users that already use Visual Studio Team Service, URLs will change from abc.visualstudio.com to dev.azure.com/abc (redirects from visualstudio.com URLs will be configured, so there will not be broken links).

Again, if you use GitHub to host your open source projects, you will be happy to know that there’s an integration that allows you to build your code and deploy it at no cost.

Finally, if you use TFS inside your IT infrastructure, don’t worry! You will always receive updates until the next release that will be renamed as Azure DevOps Server.

Take a look at pricing here.