Azure DevOps Cheat Sheet

• A service that offers a set of tools for planning, building, and deploying applications.

Features

• Azure Boards
• • It allows you to track features, user stories, tasks, and bugs associated with your project.
  • You can also customize your dashboards and track progress easily during your project lifecycle.
• Azure Pipelines
• • A CI/CD service that helps you build and test your code automatically.
  • Enables you to deploy your codes to multiple targets at the same time.
  • Run in parallel on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
  • Deploy to any cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) or on-premises.
  • Deployment gates and release approvals.
• Azure Repos
• • Store and manage your codes using a set of version control tools.
  • It supports a version control system to track every change you made in your code.
• Azure Test Plans
• • A test management solution that supports end-to-end traceability.
  • Run tests simultaneously using exploratory test sessions.

• Azure Artifacts
• • Allows you to create, host, and share your code/packages with your team or other organization.
  • You can share your code by storing Maven, npm, NuGet, and Python packages together.

Dashboards

• Customizable dashboards with widgets showing build status, test results, and work item queries.
• Create multiple dashboards as a central hub for project navigation.
• Extensible with non-Microsoft service integrations.

Collaboration Services

• Project wiki for centralized documentation.
• Work item discussions for contextual team communication.
• Traceability links between work items, commits, and pull requests.
• Alerts and notifications for project changes.
• Feedback management for continuous improvement.
• Analytics and Power BI reporting for data-driven decisions.

Azure DevTest Labs

• A self-service sandbox that helps you create Dev/Test environments.
• You can quickly provision different environments by using reusable templates and artifacts.
• It also has a cost management feature to track your VMs and PaaS resources to stay within the allocated budget.

GitHub Actions for Azure

• Automates software development workflows.
• A workflow enables you to build, test, package, release, and deploy projects on Azure.
• Each workflow is composed of individual actions that run after a particular event. These actions are defined in YAML files. 
• You can find all the available actions in the Marketplace for GitHub Actions for Azure.
• GitHub Copilot integration: Code, test, and modernize with AI assistance.
• Azure DevOps MCP Server: Enables GitHub Copilot to interact with work items, pull requests, test plans, builds, releases, and wiki pages.
• Kick off tasks from Azure Boards and use a coding agent to generate code.

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

• Native security testing tools integrated into Azure DevOps.
• Code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency scanning.
• Develop securely from inception to deployment.

Managed DevOps Pools

• Quickly spin up and customize Azure DevOps agent pools.
• Implement security best practices and balance cost and performance.
• Pre-configured for common DevOps scenarios.

Azure DevOps Cheat Sheet References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/what-is-azure-devops?view=azure-devops
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/