Ashish Raj - Demystifying Azure DevOps Services

Seema Srivastava
My Mother, my friend, my inspiration, and my world.

Ashish Raj is a technologist and storyteller who helps engineering teams improve their velocity. He believes the biggest challenges facing engineers aren't technical, but not knowing how to tie people, process, and technology. Hes worked with both cutting-edge startups and some of the largest technology providers in the world. Ashish Raj is currently a DevOps Architect and an active contributor to DevOps and cloud community. He speaks at webinars and local meetups. Ashish is a Microsoft-certified DevOps expert and Microsoft-certified trainer. Ashish has been recognized as Azure Master of the month by Microsoft and his blogs has been featured in Azure DevOps communitys news multiple times. Ashish is the co-founder of one of the largest IM based global Azure communities AzureTalk (https://t.me/AzureTalk) on the Telegram app with more than 8800 active members. He is also the founder of DevOps community AzureDevOpsPro (https://t.me/AzureDevOpsPro) with more than 3000 active members, and writes at www.azuredevopspro.com.

Sree Chavali has total 17+ years of experience technology and customer success. His interest lies in Cloud and integration of Microsoft technologies with other third-party and open source technologies. He has worked at Microsoft in various roles for about 12 years. He is M365 Certified and Azure Certified along with PMP and ITIL.

Sanjib Kumar Panigrahi is a Microsoft Certified Professional and has more than 6 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a Microsoft certified developer, Infrastructure engineer, and DevOps expert. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer with one of the products-based MNC in the United States of America. He is an active contributor to the DevOps and cloud community, speaks at webinars and local meetups. He is a core member of the global Azure DevOps community (https://t.me/AzureDevOpsPro) based on the telegram app with more than 2500 active members and co-founder of the AzureTalk community on telegram (https://t.me/AzureTalk) with more than 7900 active members. Sanjib also writes blogs on various topics related to Web applications, microservices, cloud, and DevOps.

Before I jump in and start introducing this book to you and explain what its about, Id like to convey my deep gratitude and acknowledgement to all those who helped me bring this project to fruition. To begin with, I am blessed to have an amazing, caring mother, who has always been my backbone at every step of the way. Although, she is not physically present among us, I am sure she is the happiest person to witness my achievements. Id like to dedicate this book to my mother Seema Srivastava.

I would like to thank my father Krishan Mohan Prasad for continuously encouraging me and supporting me to aim high. I would also like to thank my brotherAvinish, my son Seemansh for being patient with me, and special thanks to my dearest wife and support system - Anushka. She deserves to have her name on a separate page all by herself, but the compositor would probably choke if it tried this. So, Ill just give her a whole line to herself like this: Thank you, Anushka!

It would be certainly remiss of me if I did not recognize these people who made this project a reality, my mentor Niraj Kumar, who has been guiding and inspiring me to be the best version of myself today than yesterday. I would like to recognize my friends Vipin Jha, Ram Murti Kumar, MdAli Jaffery, Saket Jambhulkar, Sanjib Panigrahi, and Sree Chavali for their invaluable contribution to this book. Last but not least, I am grateful to Nrip Jain and Team BPB Publications for giving me this opportunity and their editorial and production services.

This book is about DevOps, which is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aims at software development and operation. This book is meticulously designed and developed in order to empower you with all the right and relevant information on DevOps.Therefore, if you want to implement the strategy of DevOps, you are in the right path.

explains DevOps as culture and helps you understand its seven practices and habits. After studying this chapter, you should be able to embrace DevOps as culture and tools you need in DevOps journey. We will also introduce Azure DevOps services as a set of tools for implementing DevOps culture in your team.

discusses how to get started with Azure DevOps services. We also discuss architecture and settings of Azure DevOps organization. We also explore pricing and cost details of Azure DevOps Services. We will explore how we can configure various settings in Azure DevOps organization such as integration with Azure Active Directory for single sign-on in the company.