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DevOps solutions on Azure

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DevOps tools for every phase of the application lifecycle

Use end-to-end solutions on Azure to implement DevOps practices throughout application planning, development, delivery, and operations. Apply the right combination of DevOps technologies, culture, and processes to enable continual software delivery and better value for customers.

Empower teams to manage their work with agility and full visibility across products and projects. Define, track, and lay out work with Kanban boards, backlogs, custom dashboards, and reporting capabilities using Azure Boards. Keep development efforts transparent and on schedule with GitHub. Explore analytics with visuals and turn data into insights with Power BI.

Tasks for different teams listed in Azure Boards

Code faster and smarter with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Share code and collaborate with like-minded developers with GitHub. Automate testing and practice continuous integration in the cloud with Azure Pipelines. Create automatic workflows, from idea to production, with GitHub Actions. And even bring your Jenkins workloads to the Azure. Provision environments for developers in minutes, using Azure DevTest Labs.

Use modern application development to accelerate time to market.

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Deploy your application to any Azure service, such as Kubernetes on Azure, automatically and with full control to continuously deliver value to customers. Define and spin up multiple cloud environments with Azure Resource Manager or HashiCorp Terraform, then create continuous delivery pipelines into these environments using Azure Pipelines or tools such as Jenkins and Spinnaker.

Implement full stack–monitoring, get actionable alerts, and gain insights from logs and telemetry, with Azure Monitor. Manage your cloud environment with Azure Automation and tools such as Ansible and Chef.

Keep provisioned infrastructure and applications in compliance by using Azure Blueprints or Chef Automate. Used with Azure Security Center, these technologies help you limit threat exposure and quickly find and remediate vulnerabilities.

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Build your DevOps practices with these tools and services

GitHub

GitHub

Increase collaboration, automate your code-to-cloud workflows, and help secure your code with advanced capabilities.

Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines

Implement CI/CD to continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and any cloud.

Azure Boards

Azure Boards

Plan, track, and discuss work across your teams using Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting.

Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor

Get full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio

Use the integrated development environment (IDE) designed for creating powerful, scalable applications for Azure.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Ship containerized apps faster and operate them more easily using a fully managed Kubernetes service.

DevOps solution architectures

See how to bring multiple tools and technologies together with Azure in these common DevOps scenarios.

CI/CD for Azure Virtual Machines

Azure is a world-class cloud for hosting virtual machines running Windows or Linux. Whether you use ASP.NET, Java, Node.js, or PHP to develop applications, you'll need a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to push changes to these virtual machines automatically.

Java CI/CD using Jenkins and Azure Web Apps

Azure App Service is a fast and simple way to create web apps using Java, Node.js, PHP, or ASP.NET, as well as support for custom language runtimes using Docker. Quickly deliver value to your customers by using Azure App Service with a CI/CD pipeline to push each of your changes automatically to Azure App Service.

DevOps for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Balance speed and security and quickly deliver code at scale by using secure DevOps with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Put guardrails around the development processes using CI/CD with dynamic policy controls and accelerate feedback loops with constant monitoring. Use Azure Pipelines to deliver quickly while ensuring enforcement of critical policies with Azure Policy. Azure provides you real-time observability for your build and release pipelines, and the ability to apply compliance audit and reconfigurations easily.

See how teams across Microsoft adopted DevOps

A successful DevOps transformation requires cultural change, which can be challenging for a large company that’s been building technology for decades. But it’s necessary to deliver better products to customers and better results to the business. Hear stories from our ongoing journey.

Explore our partners' solutions

Learn about DevOps technologies and services that can help you transform your practices.

HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform can help you easily manage infrastructure as code. Define infrastructure as code with declarative configuration files that can be used to create, manage, and update infrastructure resources.

HashiCorp Terraform

Redhat Ansible

Automate cloud provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments. Microsoft Azure is an Ansible-certified partner, adding peace of mind when using Azure modules for Ansible.

Redhat Ansible

Chef

Discover a powerful automation platform that transforms virtual machine infrastructure on Azure into code. Chef automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across your network, no matter its size.

Chef

WhiteSource

WhiteSource Bolt for Azure DevOps is a free extension that scans all your projects and detects open-source components, their licenses, and known vulnerabilities.

WhiteSource

JFrog

JFrog Artifactory is a solution for developers and DevOps engineers that provides complete control, insight, and binary management throughout the software development lifecycle.

JFrog

CloudBees

CloudBees Core brings enterprise robustness to Jenkins. This suite of enterprise-level plug-ins helps to secure, manage, and optimize Jenkins and to reduce downtime.

CloudBees

Solutions for DevOps practices

Azure DevOps has robust integrations with Azure, and a comprehensive suite of technologies that help you deliver software securely and quickly. Combine Azure DevOps with open-source DevOps tools to match your unique workflow, then seamlessly integrate them on Azure. Whether your app uses virtual machines, web apps, or Kubernetes, implement DevOps practices like CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and continuous monitoring with Azure and the DevOps toolchain of your choice.
  • From code to cloud, automate each part of the DevOps process with continuous integration and continuous delivery and your choice of tooling:

    • Define a CI/CD pipeline and manage releases with multiple environments using Azure Pipelines.
    • Target any service on Azure including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Virtual Machines, or Azure Functions.
    • Automate workflows with GitHub Actions.
    • Host Jenkins workloads, extend existing configuration, or simplify CI/CD with Jenkins plug-ins for Azure.
    • Create fast and repeatable deployments into Azure with Spinnaker.
    • Learn about continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment—and how they can meet the needs of your organization.
  • Adopt Agile software development methods with planning, tracking, and reporting for shorter release cycles and full visibility into your software development process. Manage projects with GitHub. And, use Azure Boards to:

    • Define, assign, and track work items.
    • Manage backlogs.
    • Create custom dashboards to track progress.
    • Get advanced analytics and reporting.
  • Manage git repositories, share, and collaborate with GitHub. Create a reliable code workflow for your team with:

  • Define cloud resources in a descriptive way so that environments are versioned and committed together with application code into repositories. Treating infrastructure as code lets you deploy cloud resources in repeatable and reliable fashion, ensuring cloud environments are fully governed.

  • Manage resource configuration across your entire system to enforce desired states, roll out configuration updates, and automate resolution of unexpected changes and issues. Azure offers multiple DevOps tools for configuration management including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Azure Automation.

  • Monitor infrastructure health and integrate into existing dashboards in Grafana, Kibana, or the Azure portal with Azure Monitor.

    • Practice full stack continuous monitoring.
    • Configure actionable alerts across Azure services.
    • Collect, query, and analyze logs to gain insights and mitigate issues.
    • Use built in container monitoring for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

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