Azure DevOps is a suite of 5 services you use together or independently. For example, Azure Pipelines provides build services (CI) as well as release management for continuous delivery (CD) to any cloud and on-premises servers. Azure Repos provides unlimited private Git hosting, Azure Boards provides agile planning (issues, Kanban, Scrum, and dashboards). Please note that there's a separate tag for Azure DevOps Server (formerly TFS) - the on-prem version.
Azure DevOps (previously known as Visual Studio Team Services or Visual Studio Online) is the home for your project data in the cloud and provided by Microsoft.
Questions about Azure DevOps (including azure-devops-server) may be more appropriate at one of the other Stack Exchange sites, such as
- https://devops.stackexchange.com/tags/azure-devops/info
- https://pm.stackexchange.com/tags/vsts/info
- https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/azure-devops
- https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/azure-devops-server
- https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/azure
You can get up and running in minutes and deploy to any cloud provider, including Microsoft Azure, using any language and IDE.
You can set up an environment that includes everything from hosted Git repos and project tracking tools, to continuous integration and continuous deployment. Azure DevOps includes:
- Azure pipelines CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub, Azure Repos or any Git repository and deploy continuously.
- Azure boards Powerful work tracking with Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting.
- Azure artifacts Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources.
- Azure repos Unlimited cloud-hosted private Git repos for your project. Collaborative pull requests, advanced file management, and more.
- Azure test plans All in one planned and exploratory testing solution.
Pricing
For Open source projects, get unlimited users and build time for free with up to 10 parallel jobs on Linux, Windows or macOS hosted on servers by Microsoft.
For small teams the first 5 users are free:
- Azure pipelines: 1 hosted job with 1,800 minutes per month for CI/CD and 1 self-hosted job
- Azure boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
- Azure repos: Unlimited private Git repos
- Azure artifacts: Package management
- Load testing (20,000 VUMs/month)
- Unlimited stakeholders
For growing teams, there are additional non-commitment monthly user plans available for additional team members starting at around $6 per user per month. Find out more here.
Updates
New features and updates are introduced to Azure DevOps Services every 3 weeks. Users will receive new features before they are rolled up into an update to the on-premises Team Foundation Server product. The release notes for each deployment is available by RSS feed and is summarized into an Azure DevOps Features timeline available here.
Tag usage
It is recommended to use the azure-devops tag along with the specific product area tags:
- azure-pipelines
- azure-rest-api
- azure-boards
- azure-artifacts
- azure-repos
- tfs
- tfs-workitem
- tfsbuild
- tfs-migration
Other resources
We have channels that you can also voice your concerns, FAQs, documentation and submit an idea:
- See what Azure DevOps can do for you
- Documentation
- Product updates – view the latest updates to Azure DevOps
- Submit an idea – help us improve our products
- Report a bug – having an issue? Let us know
