Learning Azure DevOps

Introduction

• Use Azure DevOps to enhance application development
• Getting the most from this course

• Overview of Azure DevOps
• Where to access Azure DevOps
• Understand the DevOps payment plan
• Login to Azure DevOps web portal
• Create an Azure DevOps project
• Create a project with the Microsoft demo generator
• View the generated project
• Add users to an organization
• Add users to an Azure DevOps team

• Manage your team workflow with Azure Boards
• Tour of Azure Boards
• Create a work item
• Boards and backlogs
• Set sprint cadence
• Boards and sprints
• Kanban board basics
• Add columns and swim-lanes to Kanban board
• Set work in progress (WIP) limits
• Kanban board tag settings
• Kanban board custom styles
• View work progress with dashboards
• Create custom work item queries
• Add a custom query to the dashboard

• What are Azure Repos?
• View the parts of Azure Repos
• Create an Azure Repo in the portal
• Clone the repo to a developer computer
• Create a repo branch
• Edit and commit to repo
• Push the branch to DevOps
• Create a pull request
• Team review of pull request

• What are Azure Pipelines?
• Explore the Pipeline parts
• Explore Pipeline build features
• Explore the example web project
• Add a service connection to Azure Resource Manager
• Explore the pipeline templates
• Add a build pipeline
• Manually run and troubleshoot a pipeline
• Update the repo to trigger the build
• Add a release pipeline
• Use custom variables in the pipeline

• Extensibility and integration overview
• Add Azure DevOps apps to Slack
• Configure Slack channel to work with DevOps
• Examine configuration messages
• Watch integration message flow into Slack
• What extensions can contribute
• Use the Marketplace to install free extensions
• Use the Code Search extension
• Use the Persona extension

• Next steps