What is Azure DevOps?
This was the service formerly known as VSTS (renamed in 2018).
It’s a combination of services that support code development - each of the services have strange names though. Here’s what they mean:
- Boards = a Kanban board and a place where you track issues/work items sprints
- Repos = a git repository (can be public or private)
- Pipelines = a Continuous Integration tool - i.e. you check in the code and the tool does the build and deploy on some other server. You can have build scripts in PowerShell
- Artifacts = your own package feed (nuget, Maven, npm)
It can be installed either on your own server or used as a service (https://dev.azure.com).
- Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft (but not on the Azure Devops product). I would still recommend this service even if I didn’t.
How much?
Pretty much free for 5 users or less.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/