Azure Devops

What is Azure?

Azure is cloud computing platform provided by Microsoft.

It is growing collection of integrated cloud services which Developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy and manage application through the global network of Data Centers.

All these providers provide services . 100+ services are available in 140 countries.

Azure Features -

1. On demand Provisioning- Ask for what you need, when you need and when to stop. If you want to scale an application then it will not take time .

2. Scalability in Minutes- Scale up or down, out or in depending upon usage or needs. for example- In e-commerce sites, like in festive seasons, you can scale up and not in festive seasons, you are able to scale down.

3. Pay as you Consume- You pay for only number of provisions you are using.

4. Abstract Resources- Focus on your application . You do not need to worry about hardware specifications and  networking. All things are taken care by Azure.

5. Efficiency of experts- Utilize the skills , knowledge and resources of experts

6. Measurable- Every unit of usage is measurable

Azure Services -

1. Compute - what kind of compute options are available. Virtual machines, app services , Data bricks.

2. Migration- if you want your storage or data . Different service available to migrate into cloud. you can move a part of your application and hybrid option is available

3. Secure - Azure is very secure and very much complained with organisational policy.

4. Storage- for example - you tube files SQL, MySQL ,DBMS, you want to store video and audio files are available in Azure

5. Messaging- Messaging based architecture like two application running separately and you want to scan send out message to each other

6. Networking- u can make cloud environment as secure as you want to be.

What is Devops -

Devops is set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to the system and change being placed into the normal production, while ensuring high quality. Operations and developers come together.

The DevOps is the combination of two words, one is development and other is Operations. It is a culture to promote the development and operation process collectively.

The DevOps tutorial will help you to learn DevOps basics and provide depth knowledge of various DevOps tools such as Git, Ansible, Docker, Puppet, Jenkins, Chef, Nagios, and Kubernetes.
what is Azure Devops-

Azure DevOps Server is a Microsoft product that provides version control, reporting, requirements management, project management, automated builds, testing and release management capabilities.

All set of tools integrated into one single environment .

Components in Azure Devops-

1. Azure Board- IT is the service for managing the work for your software projects. It brings a set of capabilities including native support for scrum, Kanban and customizaable dashboards and integrated reporting. 

2. Azure Pipelines— A CI/CD, testing, and deployment system that can connect to any Git repository

3. Azure Repos— A cloud-hosted private Git repository service

4. Azure Test Plans— A solution for tests and capturing data about defects

5. Azure Artifacts — A hosting facility for Maven, Npm, and Nu Get packages