Azure resources are not just limited to application requirements that are provisioned and maintained with the application life cycle. They also include certain platform services that are used to implement the application life cycle and development pipeline, such as Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center. We will be using these resources to manage our application development and deployments throughout the remainder of the book.
Azure DevOps (previously known as TFS Online or Visual Studio Team Services), which started as the Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite for on-premise product TFS, is now the most utilized freemium management portal. Azure DevOps instances can be created from Azure Portal as well as through the Azure DevOps portal. Let's take a look at how to do this:
- This process of procurement starts with creating a DevOps organization:
- Once the organization is created, we can now create a new project to create source control repositories...