Azure DevOps Services

Microsoft have announced new Azure DevOps services than span the breadth of the development lifecycle to help developers ship software faster and with higher quality. Azure DevOps includes:

Azure Pipelines

CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Connect to GitHub or any Git repository and deploy continuously. 

Azure Boards

Powerful work tracking with Kanban boards, backlogs, team dashboards, and custom reporting. 

Azure Artifacts

Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources. 

Azure Repos

Unlimited cloud-hosted private Git repos for your project. Collaborative pull requests, advanced file management, and more. 

Azure Test Plans

All in one planned and exploratory testing solution. 

The DevOps Model

TechNet UK had a live stream of talks back in September and this was a diagram that they shared. I think it is a helpful picture describing the process.

The State of DevOps

Puppet labs have been reporting on the current state of DevOps over the last 4 years.  They promote the need to get on board with DevOps or be left behind. The 2015 report can be found here.







Modern IT: DevOps to ITIL, Creating a Complete Lifecycle for Service Management free training.
  

The training looks at merging the DevOps movement of DevOps into existing ITIL service management practices. DevOps practices and techniques can be used with established ITIL service management framework, to get the best of both worlds from development and operating environments.

What is DevOps

Came across this article and great graphic on DevOps.

http://ed-baker.com/demystifying-devops-behaviours/

Culture and continuous delivery with the DevOps Fundamentals Series

DevOps is a culture shift for businesses and enables them to achieve faster and higher quality software with increased customer satisfactions. The DevOps culture at a high level involves people, processes, and products (in this order). It requires development, testing, operations, business, and other teams to work together, efficiently, to deliver better and faster results to customers

There are a set of videos available as an Introductions to DevOps at  bit.ly/1LMHkPc