Azure DevOps is the successor to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and is said to be its advanced version. It is a complete suite of software development tools that are being used on-premises. Azure DevOps Server integrates with currently integrated development environments (IDEs) and helps teams to develop and deploy cross-functional software. It provides a set of tools and services with which you can easily manage the planning and development of your software projects through testing and deployment.
Azure DevOps practices enable IT departments to augment quality, decrease cycle times, and optimize the use of resources to improve the way software is built, delivered and operated. It increases agility and enables better software development and speeds up the delivery by providing you the following power:
Curbing cycle times
DevOps helps organizations to improve transparency and collaboration amid their development and operations teams as well as helps them to curb cycle times and enhance the traceability of every release.
Resource optimization
The implementation of Azure DevOps helps organizations to:
- Manage environments to provision/de-provision it
- Control costs
- Utilize the provisioned resources efficiently
- Reduce security risks
Improving quality
Azure DevOps facilitates the identification of defects and their main cause early in the development cycle. It helps to test and deploy the solutions to those issues quickly.
Let’s take a look at ways Azure DevOps helps your business grow:
Security
Azure DevOps helps you to unite your hardware, processes and workforce. It is designed in such a way that it completely adheres to the standards of security, control and scalability of almost every company. It works on-premises and if you want to secure your company information onsite, Azure DevOps is the best choice. This Microsoft product also gives you complete control over the access of your organizational data. With Azure DevOps Server, authentication is done through the Active Directory of your organization. Moreover, you can use User Groups to update permissions in Azure DevOps server implementations in bulk.
Bug tracking
The Azure DevOps Server understands your development processes well. It becomes a knowledgebase through which you can easily find other bugs of a particular type. You can also search for bugs that were reported for an application before. The Azure DevOps Server also sends notifications ever since the release of the TFS Power Tools.
Collaboration
Sharing is one of the core functions of Azure DevOps. Every organization optimizes its code to host and manage it centrally. No matter what sort of code your organization uses for arranging accounts or managing servers, you can store it in the Azure DevOps Server. This provides you a central location to manage your codes. Apart from storing and sharing, you can also manage your code by versioning it through the Azure DevOps Server.
Work items
The Azure DevOps Server not only helps you to manage your code, but also facilitates you to organize the administration of systems with work items. A work item can be a server, project risk, system bug, or anything that you want. When you create work items for a process template, you can model it in an Agile Framework or the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) as per the requirement of your process. Irrespective of the arrangement, work items help your team to segregate difficult systems into feasible workloads.
Azure DevOps CI / CD pipeline
The Azure DevOps Server provides a strong platform to deploy solutions in a pipeline permitting continuous integration and delivery in a software-driven organization. Furthermore, it offers an extensive marketplace for plug-ins and integrations through which you can incorporate infrastructure-as-code into the pipeline with the help of which, the system administrator can automate changes from a single location.
Increases agility
The Azure DevOps Server offers fully integrated deployment capabilities and facilitates organizations with faster time to market. It helps you to deploy changes as and when required and sets you free from a restricted release cycle every quarter.
Continuous updates
With the Azure DevOps Server, the software gets updated regularly which ensures that it is future-proof. The software bugs get cleaned and still it continues to support the latest advancements in technology.
Minimizes outages
Outage reduction leads to big value. By implementing the DevOps approach, organizations can improve their work processes, automation and deployment. They also prevent the inferences that arise as a result of the outage.
Advanced innovation
When you minimize outages and deploy code with better quality, you can spare more time to improve your working methods. Since you have to spend less time fixing issues that arise as a result of deployment, you drive greater business outcomes.
Conclusion
By now you would have understood that the Azure DevOps Server has evolved with the arrival of new technologies to cater to the increasing demands for fast processes and superior quality. It provides you with outstanding features and functionality in one platform. The incorporation of Azure DevOps offers the finest internal culture and drives expanding growth for your company. Talk to our experts to discuss your business needs and let us help you achieve your goals with our Azure DevOps services.
